Error:Re: [Vision2020] US Supreme Court:Juvenile Death PenaltyUnconstitutional

[Saundra Lund]

Thanks, Ted, for bringing this up!

I, for one, am incredibly pleased with the decision -- it's about time.
Killing kids has *never* been an acceptable solution to me.  Of course --
and speaking as the victim of a violent crime -- I don't support capital
punishment, anyway, but the continued legal intentional killing of our
children has been a stain on our country's human rights record, IMHO.

A Supreme Court decision I actually agree with -- what, oh what, is the
world coming to  ;-)


Saundra Lund
Moscow, ID

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
nothing.
Edmund Burke

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All:

Sorry for the multiple posts on one subject, but I made an error regarding
the US Supreme Court decision on the execution of minors.  

The US Supreme Court ruled it is unconstitutional to execute those who
committed capital crimes as minors, not just the execution of minors.  Many
of the death row inmates who committed crimes as minors are not juveniles
now, but this US Supreme Court decision applies to them as well, if I
understand it correctly.

It is the age when the capitol crime was committed that is critical, not the
current age of an offender who was jailed for a crime committed some time
ago.

Ted Moffett