Tuesday, March 01, 2005

No More Killing Kids in the Name of Justice

Mikaela says:
In a big victory for opponents of the death penalty, the Supreme Court voted 5-4 to outlaw the execution of those who were minors at the time of committing crimes.

Only Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and Sandra Day O'Connor voted to uphold the states' rights to give minors the death penalty. In this opinion, they are trailing behind such enlightened countries as Iran, Pakistan, China and Saudi Arabia, which were among the last countries to perform juvenile executions and who have all now gone on record as opposing capital punishment for minors.

I guess now that we can't kill our teens, we'll work harder to install that curfew Marjorie wrote about. Liberty and justice for all.