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[novapsyche]

Court rejects death penalty for raping children: Ruling states execution would violate ban on cruel and unusual punishment -- Thank goodness.

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[vrax.livejournal.com]

The ban is fine, but the reasoning doesn't work for me. Raping someone is worse than killing them.

[nwmann.livejournal.com]

thank goodness my ass, raping a child is like killing their innocence... it should be punishable by death

[davidkevin.livejournal.com]

Why?

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

Why do I say "thank goodness"?

Because this ruling would have lead us down a slippery slope to where we could apply the death penalty to anything that violated our current sensibilities.

So, raping a child would warrant death, but raping a woman would not? What is the reasoning behind that?

I am against capital punishment. But, as long as it is in our system of jurisprudence, it should not be used if the death of the victim has not occurred. As Kennedy said, the punishment is not proportional to the crime.

[kittenkissies.livejournal.com]

Don't you think at least Allito, Roberts, and Scalia are shorteyed little pervs?