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"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.
But Kennedy said the absence of any executions for rape and the small number of states that allow it demonstrate "there is a national consensus against capital punishment for the crime of child rape."
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This should alarm every citizen of this country...
Kennedy just stated that PUBLIC OPINION directed his position...
"Looks like most people don't want it, so that means we shouldn't have it."...
