The Supreme Court has expressly ruled that the Constitution does not forbid capital punishment, even of minors.
The Convention forbids capital punishment for children.
In an attempt to lick it clean he licks off the section that forbids cruel and unusual punishment.
We should also forbid further punishment of these people, as the last thing we want is a civil war on our hands.
Additional Protocol II of 1977 explicitly forbids collective punishment.
Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention specifically forbids collective punishment.
Citing Deuteronomy 24:16, he writes that the Torah clearly forbids vicarious punishment, punishing someone other than the offender.
In particular those articles of the statute survive which forbid cruel, inhuman, or degrading punishment.
The same article also forbids capital punishment.
Its laws forbid capital punishment and require that prisoners be treated according to a minimum standard of decency.