Did I miss something in the morality and the use of the State to enforce said morals?
I present the dissenting remarks from the decision:
The Dissent:
JUSTICE ALITO, with whom THE CHIEF JUSTICE, JUSTICE
CALIA, and JUSTICE THOMAS join, dissenting.
The Court today holds that the Eighth Amendment
categorically prohibits the imposition of the death penalty
for the crime of raping a child. This is so, according to the
Court, no matter how young the child, no matter how
many times the child is raped, no matter how many children
the perpetrator rapes, no matter how sadistic the
crime, no matter how much physical or psychological
trauma is inflicted, and no matter how heinous the
perpetrator's prior criminal record may be. The Court provides
two reasons for this sweeping conclusion: First, the Court
claims to have identified "a national consensus" that the
death penalty is never acceptable for the rape of a child;
second, the Court concludes, based on its "independent
judgment," that imposing the death penalty for child rape
is inconsistent with " 'the evolving standards of decency
that mark the progress of a maturing society.' " Ante, at 8,
15, 16 (citation omitted). Because neither of these
justifications is sound, I respectfully dissent.
Let me add my two bits on the discussion with the following...
First, THIS.
Second, okay, fine. That's the way you're going to let life in America continue. Let them live, and we shall then offer the following -
Neither cruel nor unusual, and not death.I can only hope that this will encourage the police to shoot first and shoot to kill - or that those who commit child rape get their "justice" in prison. And for those of you who don't understand my brand of humor - I mean they are raped to death in prison.
4 comments:
What is crueler: the violent rape of a young girl, or death by lethal injection while sedated?
Um, Dude.
Castration is not "unusual" to you?
Really? Because given our standards of monetary penalties for civil abuses, and the loss of rights such as voting and loss of freedom, that rather stands out as quite a singular action.
The question must also be posed "how are we defining 'child rape'?"
Does this include statutory? Is there a distinction between sexual abuse & 'rape?'
Predation on the young is heinous, yes, but there is anecdotal evidence that many abusers are continuing a tragic cycle. Am not advocating a free pass, but communal murder?
Really?
If you come at me with a knife, a bat, a gun, I'll kill you. Come after my wife with the same, I'll kill you. But I'm quite reluctant to acquiesce to killing a man strapped to a chair.
Frankly, this wasn't an issue until yesterday.
But, really, the court decides that you don't get put down as long as the kid lives? Really? That's what the language in the decision says.
And, read the case. It was a stepfather who raped is 8 year old step daughter.
So let me get this straight...It's much better for awful criminals to sit in their cell and think about the horrible horrible things they've done and how awful they now feel about it and how they found Jeebus, etc. Just push him in front of a moving train. The End.
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