Amendment VIII:..........the death penalty.

I would just like to point out that the death penalty was in full effect when that amendment was made. And the methods by which it was executed (no pun intended) were much more "cruel and unusual" at that time as well.

doesn't this scare even you conservatives?

Perhaps I'm confused here. I thought right wingers and conservatives were for individual and state's rights and it was the bleeding heart liberals that wanted to hand the world over to the federal government on a silver platter? Ever heard of the libertarian party?

Then again I am from the south, and we seem to run our parties backwards from the rest of the country.

But in regard to your post, yes these are attrocities and yes they do scare me. A bit.