Tuesday, March 01, 2005

Juvenile Death Penalty Disallowed by Supremes

The link is to Professor Bainbridge.

Not a pleasant topic, but the Supremes really charged into taking over the legislative role here. The part I find most offensive is how they really have taken on themselves to be the sole guardian of morals.

I've read a couple of different MSM posting on this and they go from trumpeting this with human rights groups quotes to just giving a small article like NYT does. (see the link on PB's Blog)

From what I've been seeing, the Supremes have now decided that at 18 a switch turns on and people are responsible and understand what they are doing completely. No one younger can ever have that level of understanding. (Look at the Simmons vs. Roper case. That kid knew fully well what he was doing.)

Look at some of the other reports of the MSM out there. This is a pretty poorly thought out decision.

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