Next time put the options but the answer is the church’s huge land holdings
I believe the answer is that Furman vs. Georgia led to a reinterpretation of the meaning of cruel and unusual punishment.
The Indian piece of literature which contains the passages called the Bhagavad Gita is a) the Mahabharata. The Mahabharata is one of two Hindu epics written in Sanskrit and is considered to be very important. It details the story of the Kurukshetra War and the fate of two types of princes: Kaurava and Pandava.