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Both Virginia and Louisiana would have sought the death penalty for Malvo. But the Supreme Court, acting as the unelected dictators of American morality, has eliminated the death penalty for the younger DC sniper. John Muhammed (older sniper) has already been sentenced to death.

[68skylark]

John Muhammed (older sniper) has already been sentenced to death.

Before long, some judge will probably come up with an excuse to spare John Muhammed also.

[OXENinFLA]

   - The Majority Opinion
   - Justice Scalia’s Dissent

[TomGuy]

Many states do not have provisions/laws for moving juveniles to adult facilities once they reach age 18.

In such instances, a juvenile who murdered could conceivably be released on attaining the age of 18.

[Casloy]

Just wondering what Constitution they are reading. Where in the Constitution does it say anything about age and executions? One can probably make a case for not executing someone for committing a crime when they are under the age of 18, but that is a legislative issue, not a constitutional issue. Damn, when are some of these old farts going to retire so Bush can nominate some folks that have read the document they are supposed to ruling on.

[hattend]

Maybe we can smuggle a couple of cases of Marlboros into the prison and some inmates can save the taxpayers' money in feeding and housing Malvo.

[Charles Martel]

"Now my intent will be to extradite Malvo to Louisiana and give him the maximum sentence allowable under Louisiana law, which is life without the suspense of probation or parole," John Sinquefield, chief assistant district attorney for East Baton Rouge Parish, tells WTOP.

Well, if Malvo's going to duck the death penalty, I can't think of a better place for him to serve his sentence than Angola. He's going to be *very* popular.

[cake_crumb]

This is the second time the SCOTUS has gone outside United States law to come up with a decision which contradicts the United States Constitution. Maybe it's time for term limit amendment for all federal judges.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Told ya so.

Speaking of morality that you seem to think can be defined by a hard age limit, at what age did the Founding Fathers consider someone an adult back in the 1770's?

(Hint: adolescense is a relatively modern concept, not orginating until the Victorian age)

[TexKat]

As far as Malvo, let his @$$ rot in a jail cell until it turns into a dried up carcass

[savedbygrace]

The Malvo case is just one case.

How about if terrorists adapt to this ruling and use juvelines for their front line work? The next time they hit us here, think of the outrage when it dawns on people that they won't be able to fry the animals.

Those who are appluading this new law written by the USSC are shortsighted, at the very least.

[ReagansRaiders]

I have a very simple solution here. Congress sets the scope of jurisdiction for the federal courts. Congress should pass a law prohibiting federal courts from citing in their opinions and barring them from considering foreign laws, treaties, etc. unless the foreign law, treaty, etc. is what is in dispute.

Now, the obvious problem with this is that someone may say, "Well, what about the Ten Commandments or the Magna Carta?" Those are historical in nature and can be viewed through the prism of having influenced our nation's founding documents. That's a far cry from a court looking to the latest trendy EU law passed by the MP from Eurotrashland.