I have a ton to catch up on so here’s political article I wanted to draw to your attention!
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Wednesday outlawed executions of people convicted of raping a child. In a 5-4 vote, the court said the Louisiana law allowing the death penalty to be imposed in such cases violates the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. “The death penalty is not a proportional punishment for the rape of a child,” Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in his majority opinion. His four liberal colleagues joined him, while the four more conservative justices dissented.
Now that being said….how many of you think it is cruel and unusual punishment for that child to be raped! That person has taken the life away from that child and killed their innocence. That is so very hard to work through, not impossible but EXTREMELY difficult! It’s funny how we once cared about the victim and now the courts have switched to caring for the criminal! They “seem” to have rights that surpass all others. The Preamble to the U.S. Constitution states:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence,[1] promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
The declaration goes on to state:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. –That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,…
You can go here and read the rest of the Constitution. I think I have said enough and if you don’t get my point and the intentions of our forefathers than maybe e you need to spend some time studying the Constitution! Thanks to my 8th grade history teacher who made us memorize the preamble and other portions of the Bill Of Rights and the Constitution! Because of him, I know I had a great education!
