The Supreme Court Devalues Children Yet Again: the Child Rape Decision
posted by Richard Land on 06.26.2008
Topics: abuse, death penalty, supreme court
My latest post to Casting Stones:
“The Supreme Court continued its disturbing trend of devaluing children with its Patrick Kennedy v. Louisiana decision. By a 5 to 4 majority (how familiar is that phrase becoming?) the Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty is unconstitutional for even the brutal rape of a small child (the victim in this case was 8 years old when she was raped by her stepfather) unless the child has actually physically been murdered…”