Canadian judges love to toss out the old “cruel and unusual” chestnut when it suits their ideological whims.
The violent illegal immigrant whose deportation is iced because it might be “cruel and unusual.”
Mandatory minimum sentences for gun crimes? “Cruel and unusual.”
A killer who ONLY murdered one person has to do the full 25? Again, cruel and unusual. He should get a discount for only murdering one luckless individual.
Violent youthful offenders should not feel the full weight of the law; again, because that would be “cruel and unusual.”
Tough to get bail and conditions? “Cruel and unusual.”
But the phrase “cruel and unusual” is never, ever used when we are discussing murder victims or crime victims of any stripe. Victims like eight-year-old boy JahVai Roy, murdered by a stray bu