Arizona corrections officials are investigating the death of a female inmate who collapsed after spending nearly four hours in an outdoor holding cell on a day when the temperature hit 103.

Marcia Powell, who was serving a 27-month sentence for prostitution, was put in the uncovered chain-link cell at a state prison in Goodyear about 11 a.m. Tuesday.

Using the sun to bake her to death saves on firewood and is considered more carbon friendly than outright burning her at the stake.   27 months for prostitution?  If only she'd been a war criminal.  There's no penalty for that these days.

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Or, a post that could have been titled: Origins on the limits to torture:

When a slave owner strikes a male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies immediately, the owner shall be punished. But if the slave survives a day or two, there is no punishment; for the slave is the owner's property. (Exod. 21:20-21

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