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Corry's punishment is an example of cruel and unusual punishment. Corry is left on a hot, dusty asteroid in solitary confinement for multiple years. The solitary confinement for that amount of time makes him start to loose his sanity, which is like mental torture. He is also being physically tortured in a way because it is not the most comfortable environment to be living in. The solitary confinement is bad enough, the least they could do is make it comfortable for him. Corry also ponders suicide because he is so miserable. Even though this punishment isn't directly capital punishment it can very easily turn into it. if someone is put in a situation where they loose there life, it is just as bad as the death penalty. The people who gave Corry this punishment might not have thought that it was cruel and unusual punishment, but in reality it was.