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June 26, 2008

"the supreme court made the right decision"

No Death Penalty for Child Rape: The Supreme Court made the right decision by rejecting execution for nonlethal crimes. Editorial. Los Angeles Times (June 26, 2008): "In concluding that capital punishment can be imposed constitutionally only for the crime of deliberate murder, the Supreme Court wisely has prevented a further expansion of a penalty that is already imposed freakishly and in a discriminatory way. The country, and the court, should be focusing on ending the death penalty, not devising new opportunities to render it... 

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