Supreme Court update

Today the Supreme Court ruled that it is unconstitutional for child rapists to get the death penalty. This grants leniency to perverse human beings and won't help to deter future child rapists. With these five justices, the pendulum is swinging back in the favor of criminals and away from "Law and Order."

The AP writes

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080625/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_child_rape

The Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a law that allows the execution of
people convicted of a raping a child.

In a 5-4 vote, the court said the
Louisiana law allowing the death penalty to be imposed in such cases violates
the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
"The death penalty is not a proportional punishment for the rape of a child," Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in his majority opinion. His four liberal colleagues joined him, while the four more conservative justices dissented.