“This inventory of jurisdictions was a central part of the court’s analysis, the foundation for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s conclusion in his majority opinion that capital punishment for child rape was contrary to the “evolving standards of decency” by which the court judges how the death penalty is applied.
One minor typo in the above.
“..capital punishment for child rape was contrary to the “DEvolving standards of decency”.
That fixes it.
I’m shoving the phrase
“evolving standards of decency in a maturing society”
in every lib’s face that I encounter, especially when there is some story of the devolving society caused by some liberal policy.
Yeah, we’ve “evolved our standards of decency” since the 50’s, now haven’t we?