Posted on 03/01/2005 7:21:16 AM PST by Next_Time_NJ
Torture killings, for one thing. At the time of the ratification of the constitution, executions were the law of the land. They were not considered cruel or unusual. The 8th Amendment was never meant to outlaw the death penalty.
Period.
Your desires and the Constitution do not have to agree.
So was slavery. Times change.
..so the next stunt/step...the ACLU racketeers will start appealing for early release and put the murdering fsks back among us..their comming..to a neighborhood near you!!
So was slavery. Times change.
As I recall, there was an amendment or two to the constitution regarding slavery.
Can you point to a similar amendment re Capital Punishment, or is the wisdom of foreigners enough as a substitute as it is for Justice Kennedy?
Even if the killer killed a 15 year old, two 15 year olds, and laughed about it afterward, and even if the 15 year old killer will not be executed until his appeals run out - at the age of THIRTY? Do you object to executing people who are over the age of 25? Should they be at least 26 - 32?
Or do you understand a mandatory life sentence without parole? And do you understand that sentence as one to encourage a lifetime of penance, in isolation, sackcloth and ashes as it were? with which you'd find agreement, I think.
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