The Court thus proclaims itself sole arbiter of our Nations moral standardsand in the course of discharging that awesome responsibility purports to take guidance from the views of foreign courts and legislatures. Because I do not believe that the meaning of our Eighth Amendment, any more than the meaning of other provisions of our Constitution, should be determined by the subjective views of five Members of this Court and like-minded foreigners, I dissent.
LIKE-MINDED FOREIGNERS! ZING!!!!!
Unless they uncrate these teenage hitmen straight off a cabbage boat from Kabul, I don't think we have too much to worry about as far as the allure of a lifetime in prison for most 17-yr-olds and younger in this country.