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Hook provides an uncited, but novel assertion that the Founding Fathers would have considered 'blood extraction' to be 'cruel and unusual punishment' because, purportedly, '[v]ampires were feared and
and vilified' at the time of the Founding. Even accepting this proposition, blood extraction by a vampire is certainly distinguishable from a sanitary blood draw under current medical practice."
