[kingattax]

The Supreme Court, in its 5-4 decision, tossed out the death sentence of a Missouri man who was 17 when he murdered a St. Louis area woman in 1993, saying the punishment was unconstitutionally cruel under the Eighth Amendment. "When a juvenile commits a heinous crime, the state can exact forfeiture of some of the most basic liberties, but the state cannot extinguish his life and his potential to attain a mature understanding of his own humanity," Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/01/teen.sniper/index.html

SHEER INSANITY...black-robed lunatics

[Noachian]

...but the state cannot extinguish his life and his potential to attain a mature understanding of his own humanity," Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote.

Of course the state can kill him.

How is he suppose to "attain a mature understanding of his own humanity" locked in a prison cell for life while being some convict's "toy"?

These are the words, and mindset, of someone completely disconnected from reality. They only go to show that Kennedy has been on the bench too long.