Posted on 07/01/2008 5:21:39 PM PDT by Blogster12
The Supreme Court, in a decision that attempts to honor the sanctity of life and to reserve the death penalty for situations where a murder has occurred, has just given one who rapes a child and the child both a free pass on life. The rapist gets to spend the rest of their life in prison supported by tax payers, escaping the hangman's noose, while the child gets to spend the rest of their life supported by themselves and trying to avoid tying the noose to end their suffering . The Court got it wrong completely for the following reasons...
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I believe this was one of those powers where the Federal Government usurped the powers of the state. They never should have taken the case.
This is why the leftwing judges keep dragging out the old BS about "evolving standards of decency," as if that soundbite had some kind of validity. That is the basis the liberals wish to establish. The other stuff, about proportionality and frequency and so on, is all non-relevant baloney. And there are established grounds for determining whether a mentally ill person is competent to be executed.
That having been said I continue to hold my position against the death penalty for rapists as it can lead to the pre-emptive death of potential witnesses. A nonjudicial consideration.
The list of capital crimes should be vastly expanded even as appeal times are shortened in order to reduce the burgeoning prison poplation, both from shortening the average stay of convicts and by being an object lesson to criminal aspirants.
Kennedy will burn in hell for this one.
Why must this country suffer over and over because of Kennedys.
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