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Question
Courts have used all of the following in assessing what constitutes cruel and unusual punishment, except whether the punishment:a. "shocks the general conscience" of a civilized society.
b. is specifically prohibited in the Eighth Amendment.
c. is unnecessarily cruel.
d. goes beyond legitimate penal aims.
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