[Modernman]

It's not the decision people are mad about. It's using foreign laws to interpret the Constitution. Not to mention declaring a percieved national opinion a law.

From Kennedy's opinion:

"The opinion of the world community, while not controlling our outcome, does provide respected and significant confirmation for our own conclusions"

I've looked at the opinion a few times. I haven't seen any passages where the opinion relies on foreign law for its decisions.

[rudypoot]

The Supreme Court's main argument was the "trend" since 1989 that seven countries (Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Nigeria, Congo, and China) have banned juvenile capital punishment. Justices Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer, Stevens and Souter changed U.S. law so we can follow the lead of those seven countries.

How do you think they came up with this 'world opinion' crap? The justices' percieved world opinion was based on foreign laws.