"If you are sentenced to torture for a crime, yes, that is a cruel punishment. But the mere fact that somebody is tortured is - is unlawful under - under our statutes, but the Constitution happens not to address it, just as it does not address a lot of other horrible things."
American jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1986 to 2016. He was a leading advocate of textualism and originalism in constitutional interpretation. His opinions had lasting influence on American legal theory and practice.