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Justice Breyer: 'Time to Reconsider the Constitutionality of Death Penalty'
Newsmax ^ | Monday, 12 Dec 2016 02:47 PM | Mark Swanson

Posted on 12/13/2016 1:17:43 AM PST by Olog-hai

In a dissenting opinion he wrote Monday, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer said the “time has come for this Court to reconsider the constitutionality of the death penalty.”

The Supreme Court refused to hear the case of a man who was sentenced to death 40 years ago in Florida. Breyer said that amounted to cruel and unusual punishment.

When Henry Sireci “was first sentenced to death, the Berlin Wall stood firmly in place. Saigon had just fallen. Few Americans knew of the personal computer or the Internet,” Breyer wrote. …

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: breyer; deathpenalty; sireci; supremecourt
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To: Ditter

That Trump will end up like JFK?


41 posted on 12/13/2016 12:47:45 PM PST by Flaming Conservative
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To: Olog-hai

Someone ask Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer what he thinks about abortion. Killing innocent babies.

Also using the unconstitutional obamacare to deny people medical care by using age (among others) to determine care. Too old, you are useless to society. Death to you just like they do in England and Canada and the other socialist countries.


42 posted on 12/13/2016 4:02:00 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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