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WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court declared Wednesday that executions are too severe a punishment for raping children, despite the “years of long anguish” for victims, in a ruling that restricts the death penalty to murder and crimes against the state.

The court’s 5-4 decision struck down a Louisiana law that allows capital punishment for people convicted of raping children under 12. It spares the only people in the U.S. under sentence of death for that crime — two Louisiana men convicted of raping girls 5 and 8.

The ruling also invalidates laws on the books in five other states that allowed executions for child rape that does not result in the death of the victim.

However devastating the crime to children, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in his majority opinion, “the death penalty is not a proportional punishment for the rape of a child.” His four liberal colleagues joined him, while the four more conservative justices dissented.

There has not been an execution in the United States for a crime that did not also involve the death of the victim in 44 years, a factor that weighed in Kennedy’s decision.

Rape and other crimes “may be as devastating in their harm, as here, but ‘in terms of moral depravity and of the injury to the person and to the public,’ they cannot be compared to murder in their ’severity and irrevocability,’” Kennedy said, quoting from earlier decisions.

The victim in the case decided Wednesday was an 8-year-old girl raped by her stepfather at their home in Harvey, La., outside New Orleans.

Angry Louisianans who backed the law said the court was out of touch.

Court bans death penalty for child rape

Here ya go folks, another reason OBAMA can’t be allowed to occupy the WhiteHouse.

We NEED to get that worthless part of our Government back in line before they totally ruin our chances for survival. The SCOTUS is legislating from the bench and they are absolutely giving a green light for anarchy.

This particular ruling, while it seems fairly controversial it is not IT IS DEAD WRONG! The reason is; it involves children, the very children that look for ADULTS to protect them until they reach the age at which they can protect themselves.

We as a nation are better than this ruling, WE as a nation should be screaming at the top of our lungs that, IF you harm a child sexually YOU will be removed from this earth post haste.

IF YOU force yourself on a child, YOU have decided that your life is more important than the child’s, YOU have made yourself Judge jury and executioner of an innocent child, YOU have sentenced that child to a life of uncertainty, pain, anguish and trauma because of YOUR EVIL DESIRE! You have created a potential time bomb that possibly continue the abuse cycle or graduate to murder.

WHEN a person commits such a horrendous act, The person not only harms the child, he deprives society of what that child MIGHT have been, MIGHT have done. The perpetrator of an act of rape is a violent person, and if it can be proven with DNA, and/or eye witnesses this crime SHOULD result in the death of the assailant.

I submit the SCOTUS has given children NO protection when they are the most deserving, and I hope they can live with themselves in the aftermath.