Many people have seen the story of the two men who adopted kids that they molested and made child porn with.
What you probably don't know is that some states used to allow the death penalty for child rape. In 2008, the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional. π§΅
What you probably don't know is that some states used to allow the death penalty for child rape. In 2008, the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional. π§΅
A man named Patrick O'Neal Kennedy was convicted of raping his 8 year-old stepdaughter. The rape was particularly brutal. "A laceration to the left wall of the vagina had separated her cervix from the back of her vagina, causing her rectum to protrude into the vaginal structure"
Kennedy was sentenced to death. He appealed and Kennedy v. Louisiana went to the Supreme Court. By a 5-4 decision (liberals plus Kennedy in the majority), the Court ruled that the death penalty for raping children was "cruel and unusual punishment."
The Supreme Court also cited "the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society." It tells us that a child rapist should not be killed, so that "the system will find ways to allow him to understand the enormity of his offense."
Alito dissent notes that the death penalty is prohibited "no matter how young the child, no matter how many times...how many children the perpetrator rapes...how sadistic the crime...how much physical or psychological trauma..how heinous the perpetratorβs..criminal record may be"
So next time you see the most heinous crimes against children committed and wonder why we can't just kill such people, know it's because liberals on the Supreme Court decided that sparing them was the only way we could be a fully evolved society. Voters have no say in the matter.
Of course, the composition of the Court has changed since then. Alito, Thomas, and Roberts are still there, and conservatives have a 6-3 majority.
If some state passed a new law to execute child rapists, it would probably be good politics to let liberals get mad about it.
If some state passed a new law to execute child rapists, it would probably be good politics to let liberals get mad about it.
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