Since the Supreme Court of the United States has ruled capital punishment as not being cruel and unusual punishment, would I be accurate in writing that disposal of a corpse that was put to death or lawfully killed during commission of (or attempted commission of) a felony cannot be considered legally to be cruel or unusual punishment - regardless how disposal is completed?
Can disposal of a corpse ever be considered to be cruel and unusial punishment?
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DWalt
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How can a corpse be punished? Maybe desecrated, but not punished. There are many arguments about what constitutes "cruel and unusual punishment." My belief is that the intent the framers of the constitution referred to the typical torture and execution methods of the time, such as drawing and quartering, stretching on the rack, use of the Iron Maiden, pressing to death, burning at the stake, drowning, etc., not quick execution by hanging, the guillotine, firing squads, etc.
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Look up the "body farms" at Western Carolina, Tennessee-Knoxville and Texas-San Marcos Universities.
Absalom
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Dude, it's a corpse. Neither the Supreme Court nor any constitutional provisions relating to people, be it cruel and unusual punishment or the right to keep and bear arms, apply anymore. In fact, NO federal laws apply anymore unless you dump the body in a national park or you killed a federal officer or violated federal statutes in some way. Check your state and local laws about corpse abuse.
gunnails
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I think your good to go!
BUFF
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Most states have laws dealing with "abuse of a corpse" regarding what someone does with a human body before it is reported, investigated and signed off by a doctor or medical examiner or coroner, and then have either laws or health department regulations dealing with the disposition of a body afterwards. They pretty well all make provisions for education and research use.
I am pretty sure that cannibalism isn't a permitted use in most states.
I am pretty sure that cannibalism isn't a permitted use in most states.
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You got something you need to tell us?
The "body farms" you're referring to use bodies of animals and humans who have donated their remains to science. I don't think they use any "unclaimed" bodies.
What does one have to do with the other?
Hmmmm...
Corpses
Knowing the government's penchant for endless regulations, I'm pretty sure that you may not possess a corpse without some sort of license.
But then, people often possess human skulls, wherever they get them and I've never heard of any charges leveled at them. But, a skull isn't exactly a corpse.
Museums? They often have mummies. Perhaps there are local board of health regs that must be followed?
Even the Catholic church enshrines bits and pieces of saints in vessels called reliquaries. But that's mostly in Europe.
Your great-aunt Freda has just died while on vacation. Why hire a funeral director to return her body to her state of residence when you can just load her in the trunk or tie her to the roof rack of your car? Transporting a body without the appropriate license will surely bring you some unwanted attention and once you're done paying the lawyer's fees, the funeral director's fee would have been a real bargain in comparison.
Knowing the government's penchant for endless regulations, I'm pretty sure that you may not possess a corpse without some sort of license.
But then, people often possess human skulls, wherever they get them and I've never heard of any charges leveled at them. But, a skull isn't exactly a corpse.
Museums? They often have mummies. Perhaps there are local board of health regs that must be followed?
Even the Catholic church enshrines bits and pieces of saints in vessels called reliquaries. But that's mostly in Europe.
Your great-aunt Freda has just died while on vacation. Why hire a funeral director to return her body to her state of residence when you can just load her in the trunk or tie her to the roof rack of your car? Transporting a body without the appropriate license will surely bring you some unwanted attention and once you're done paying the lawyer's fees, the funeral director's fee would have been a real bargain in comparison.
Are you thinking of wrapping a dead Jehadist in bacon?????????
or is that formerly bothersome mother-in-law....starting to smell?????
Oh ya ......... see post #8 for the correct answer!
Desecration of a body is against the law in most states, I'm sure. Since preparation and burial of the dead is really about the living, it would be cruel and unusual punishment for the family of the deceased, criminal or not. We are a nation of laws, with justice, not revenge, as our goal.
Half Wrong
I spoke with my sister who is in the business of arranging scatterings and full-body burials at sea. She said you could transport a corpse provided you obtain a transit permit.
If the body is not embalmed, you must either drive quickly or wait until winter.
I spoke with my sister who is in the business of arranging scatterings and full-body burials at sea. She said you could transport a corpse provided you obtain a transit permit.
If the body is not embalmed, you must either drive quickly or wait until winter.
Woodrow just put Gus in a pine box and hauled him back to Texas 
BUFF
SWCA Member, Absent Comrade
"Your great-aunt Freda has just died while on vacation. Why hire a funeral director to return her body to her state of residence when you can just load her in the trunk or tie her to the roof rack of your car?"
Imogene Coca in National Lampoon's Vacation.
Imogene Coca in National Lampoon's Vacation.
okiegtrider
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What was this thread about again ?
Dang Rusty, you beat me to it again.
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