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Originally Posted by cnredd 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."...

Asked about today's US Supreme Court ruling that sentencing someone to death for raping a child is unconstitutional, Obama said he disagreed with such a broad ban.

"I have said repeatedly that I think that the death penalty should be applied in very narrow circumstances for the most egregious of crimes. I think that the rape of a small child, 6 or 8 years old, is a heinous crime," he said, adding that if a state determines the death penalty should apply in such cases, they should be allowed to impose it.

The high court's ruling invalidates laws in six states that allow the death penalty if child rape cases when the child is not killed.