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Laurence Tribe on Kennedy v. Louisiana

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Yesterday's Wall Street Journal carried the OpEd, "The Supreme Court Is Wrong On the Death Penalty."It's not often that the U.S. Supreme Court is asked by a state and the federal government to reconsider a case it has just handed down because it missed key evidence. But that is what is happening now in Kennedy v. Louisiana. In that case, the court ruled in late June that Louisiana could not execute someone convicted of violently raping a child. Dividing along familiar 5-4 lines, the court held, speaking through Justice Anthony Kennedy, that the death penalty must be reserved for killers and traitors. To apply it to others, including the most reprehensible violators of young children, would constitute a "cruel and unusual punishment" violating the Constitution's Eighth Amendment...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 01, 2008 (boomark / email).