[SpyGuy]

These are but a few of the approx 70 "little angels" that, according to five Liberal activists on the US Supreme Court, deserve our pity and compassion.

I want to hear from the supporters of today's ruling: tell us all how these "children" had no idea that what they were doing was wrong.

[HMFIC]

Dear SCOTUS,

You can die now. Time for new blood who think in THIS century not the early 1900's!

[WinOne4TheGipper]

I heard the decision was 5-4, I just haven't heard which 5, so I'll take a wild stab (no pun intended) at who voted with the lib bloc. Was it O'Connor?

[lnbchip]

First, let me say that I am an opponent of the death penalty in general for religious reasons. However, I don't understand the court's hipocracy in declaring the death penalty unconstitutional for minors because they could not be held fully accountable because of their age while at the same time declaring that they can have unlimited access to abortions without any hindrance or parental notification.

Either minors are congnizant enough to receive adult treatment and make adult decisions or they are not. If a minor is adult enough to kill an infant in the womb without any consent from parents or other adults, then that minor is adult enough to face the same treatment that any person gets when they commit murder.

[Dog]

Imagine a month from now Al Qaeda attacks the US using a squad of 17 year olders.......and they pull off a 9/11 style attack.....and kill 3,000.......they would not be eligible for the death penalty based on todays ruling.

[oldleft]

They didn't argue that they didn't know what they were doing. The argument was that in our society you're generally not considered a responsible adult until you're 18. This goes for voting, fighting wars, financial independence from your guardian, ect.

Let the blow back begin.

[SF Republican]

True, these are very sad stories but to be honest I have little problem with this decision; technically (and that is the law) they were NOT adults; if they get a lifetime in prison it is fine with me, the hell they live in there is deserved.

[vox_freedom]

The age of reason has been set at 7 years of age. That is the age that, unless mentally unfit, knows right from wrong. The death penalty should definitely be applied when the punishment fits the crime and the SCOTUS is wrong, wrong, wrong to be moving the death penalty off the options list for capital crimes.
By the way, if a 16 or 17 year old kills the President, must we house them in a prison forever?

[mother22wife21]

ping

for later read

[Piedra79]

We don't allow people under 18 to smoke, vote, or purchase pornography. They can't consent to sex with someone over the age of 18, and they certainly can't drink. Is it possible that such laws are in place because we as a society decided long ago that the capacity for kids to form decisions is not the same as an adult?

I know this is brought up many time, but do we really want to say that our country shares a practice that is only done in some of the more despotic countries in the middle east?

[SteveMcKing]

Someone should start a website dedicated to all of their victims and their family.

[joey9004]

didn't you know?? the only children that can be killed are the unborn...

[PeterFinn]

Pillars of the community all of them.

Not.

[hubno]

This Shuld spawn some of the youngest hit (men) kids in history.Gangs will sub out murders to teens under 18.

[jackbill]

And then there is the DC sniper, John Malvo. He skates.

[goldstategop]

The ruling is unconstitutional. I defy y'all to show me a passage ANYWHERE in the Constitution where it bans the execution of those under 18. The SCOTUS couldn't find it, so they resorted to moral posturing and high-minded puffery in place of a reasoned legal opinion. The courts are out of control.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[It's me]

All these youngsters were too young and innocent to know right from wrong when the evil was commited.

We have to spare them.

/scarsm while I barf

[Huntress]

You left out Chris Simmons of Missouri, who broke into the house of a complete stranger, kidnapped her, hog-tied her, and threw her off a bridge into the river below just for the hell of it.

[COEXERJ145]

"Cobb, Raymond Levi: White male; age 17 at crime and now age 27 (DOB: 6-18-1976); murders of white female age 23 and white female age 16 months in Huntsville on 12-27-1993; sentenced on 2-27-1997; reversed in 2000; resentenced to death in 2001."

What it doesn't say is this POS killed the mother, buried her body and buried her daughter alive with the body. Now thanks to Kennedy and his cronies, he'll be out in less than 40 years.

[rockabyebaby]

Message to young teenagers:

Kill everyone you want, you will not be put to death, in fact you may not even go to jail if you're lucky enough to get a LIB judge.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Apparently, their numerous victims were appreciably less dead than victims butchered by older, more seasoned monsters. < /sarcasm>