[muir_redwoods]

Good. No matter how evil they are, people under the age of 18 (in my view 25 but what do I really know)don't weigh consequences all that well. Life sentences for 16 and 17 year-old killers makes more sense to me.

[billclintonwillrotinhell]

"The age of 18 is the point where society draws the line for many purposes between childhood and adulthood," Justice Kennedy wrote for the majority. "It is, we conclude, the age at which the line for death eligibility ought to rest."

If Kennedy is using that pathetic reasoning to prevent states from executing juveniles, how long will it be before the same Supreme Court prevents states from prosecuting juveniles as adults? How long will it be before the Supreme Court prevents states from locking up juveniles at all for their crimes?

Society uses the age of 18 for many purposes to distinguish between children and adults, but it's crazy to compare murder to something like the right to vote. The judgment necessary to vote is nothing like the judgment that killers use when they decide to murder.

Has it ever dawned on Kennedy and the other Supreme Court libs that America might be the best country on the planet and, thus, checking what other countries do is stupid when deciding U.S. cases?

This is one of the worst, thoughtless, baseless decisions I've seen from the Supreme Court in a long, long time. It's yet another setback for states' rights. We might as well just merge all 50 states into one right now because they're all beginning to look the same anyway.

[Tarkin]

Even though I expected that the court would declare DP for juveniles unconstitutional I thought that Sandy would be the deciding vote.
Never trust a Kennedy...by the way he is becoming more liberal than O'Connor (also look at Lawrence v. Texas, where she refused to overrule Bowers v. Hardwick, and compare it with the majority opinion written by Kennedy). They should both retire (along with Stevens and Ginsburg, that is :-))

[Netizen]

Earlier Thread, Same Topic

[azhenfud]

If our society is going to use capital punishment, the death penalty, as a deterrent to crime, IMO we should reinstate public executions or have NONE AT ALL.

Far too often sentences are executed so distant from the commission of the crime, there is no association of one with the other.

[chatham]

How about the "Cruel and unusual" penalties these vermin inflicted on their victims?

This Supreme court is on another planet somewhere.