What the child rapist, saved today by Supreme Court liberals, did to his 8-year-old stepdaughter
Anthony Kennedy and the leftists on the Supreme Court ruled this morning that what child rapist Patrick Kennedy did to his 8-year-old stepdaughter is a crime that should not be punishable by death.
The MSM will tiptoe around what child rapist Patrick Kennedy actually did.
I’m reprinting the full description of the crime from Kennedy’s ruling below in the interest of fully informing you all (warning – explicit). Is the death penalty “not a proportional punishment” to this crime? You decide. And the next time liberals wave the “For the children” banner, ask them about L.H.
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From Kennedy’s majority opinion in Kennedy v. Louisiana, decided June 25, 2008:
…Petitioner’s crime was one that cannot be recounted in these pages in a way sufficient to capture in full the hurt and horror inflicted on his victim or to convey the revulsion society, and the jury that represents it, sought to express by sentencing petitioner to death. At 9:18 a.m. on March 2, 1998, petitioner called 911 to report that his stepdaughter, referred to here as L. H., had been raped.
He told the 911 operator that L. H. had been in the garage while he readied his son for school. Upon hearing loud screaming, petitioner said, he ran outside and found L. H. in the side yard. Two neighborhood boys, petitioner told the operator, had dragged L. H. from the garage to the yard, pushed her down, and raped her. Petitioner claimed he saw one of the boys riding away on a blue 10-speed bicycle.
When police arrived at petitioner’s home between 9:20 and 9:30 a.m., they found L. H. on her bed, wearing a T-shirt and wrapped in a bloody blanket. She was bleeding profusely from the vaginal area. Petitioner told police he had carried her from the yard to the bathtub and then to the bed. Consistent with this explanation, police found a thin line of blood drops in the garage on the way to the house and then up the stairs. Once in the bedroom, petitioner had used a basin of water and a cloth to wipe blood from the victim. This later prevented medical personnel from collecting a reliable DNA sample.
L. H. was transported to the Children’s Hospital. An expert in pediatric forensic medicine testified that L. H.’s injuries were the most severe he had seen from a sexual assault in his four years of practice. A laceration to the left wall of the vagina had separated her cervix from the back of her vagina, causing her rectum to protrude into the vaginal structure. Her entire perineum was torn from the posterior fourchette to the anus. The injuries required emergency surgery.
At the scene of the crime, at the hospital, and in the first weeks that followed, both L. H. and petitioner maintained in their accounts to investigators that L. H. had been raped by two neighborhood boys. One of L. H.’s doctors testified at trial that L. H. told all hospital personnel the same version of the rape, although she reportedly told one family member that petitioner raped her. L. H. was interviewed several days after the rape by a psychologist. The interview was videotaped, lasted three hours over two days, and was introduced into evidence at trial. On the tape one can see that L. H. had difficulty discussing the subject of the rape. She spoke haltingly and with long pauses and frequent movement. Early in the interview, L. H. expressed reservations about the questions being asked:
“I’m going to tell the same story. They just want me to change it. . . . They want me to say my Dad did it. . . . I don’t want to say it. . . . I tell them the same, same story.” Def. Exh. D–7, 01:29:07–:36.
She told the psychologist that she had been playing in the garage when a boy came over and asked her about Girl Scout cookies she was selling; and that the boy “pulled [her by the legs to] the backyard,” id., at 01:47:41–:52, where he placed his hand over her mouth, “pulled down [her] shorts,” Def. Exh. D–8, 00:03:11–:12, and raped her, id., at 00:14:39–:40.
Eight days after the crime, and despite L. H.’s insistence that petitioner was not the offender, petitioner was arrested for the rape. The State’s investigation had drawn the accuracy of petitioner and L. H.’s story into question. Though the defense at trial proffered alternative explanations, the case for the prosecution, credited by the jury, was based upon the following evidence: An inspection of the side yard immediately after the assault was inconsistent with a rape having occurred there, the grass having been found mostly undisturbed but for a small patch of coagulated blood. Petitioner said that one of the perpetrators fled the crime scene on a blue 10-speed bicycle but gave inconsistent descriptions of the bicycle’s features, such as its handlebars. Investigators found a bicycle matching petitioner and L. H.’s description in tall grass behind a nearby apartment, and petitioner identified it as the bicycle one of the perpetrators was riding. Yet its tires were flat, it did not have gears, and it was covered in spider webs. In addition police found blood on the underside of L. H.’s mattress. This convinced them the rape took place in her bedroom, not outside the house.
Police also found that petitioner made two telephone calls on the morning of the rape. Sometime before 6:15 a.m., petitioner called his employer and left a message that he was unavailable to work that day. Petitioner called back between 6:30 and 7:30 a.m. to ask a colleague how to get blood out of a white carpet because his daughter had “ ‘just become a young lady.’ ” Brief for Respondent 12.
At 7:37 a.m., petitioner called B & B Carpet Cleaning and requested urgent assistance in removing bloodstains from a carpet. Petitioner did not call 911 until about an hour and a half later.
About a month after petitioner’s arrest L. H. was removed from the custody of her mother, who had maintained until that point that petitioner was not involved in the rape. On June 22, 1998, L. H. was returned home and told her mother for the first time that petitioner had raped her. And on December 16, 1999, about 21 months after the rape, L. H. recorded her accusation in a videotaped interview with the Child Advocacy Center.
The State charged petitioner with aggravated rape of a child under La. Stat. Ann. §14:42 (West 1997 and Supp. 1998) and sought the death penalty. At all times relevant to petitioner’s case, the statute provided:
“A. Aggravated rape is a rape committed . . . where the anal or vaginal sexual intercourse is deemed to be without lawful consent of the victim because it is committed under any one or more of the following circumstances:
. . . . .
“(4) When the victim is under the age of twelve years. Lack of knowledge of the victim’s age shall not be a defense.
. . . . .
“D. Whoever commits the crime of aggravated rape shall be punished by life imprisonment at hard labor without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence.
“(1) However, if the victim was under the age of twelve years, as provided by Paragraph A(4) of this Section:
“(a) And if the district attorney seeks a capital verdict, the offender shall be punished by death or life imprisonment at hard labor without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence, in accordance with the determination of the jury.”
(Since petitioner was convicted and sentenced, the statute has been amended to include oral intercourse within the definition of aggravated rape and to increase the age of the victim from 12 to 13. See La. Stat. Ann. §14:42 (West Supp. 2007).)
Aggravating circumstances are set forth in La. Code Crim. Proc. Ann., Art. 905.4 (West 1997 Supp.). In pertinent part and at all times relevant to petitioner’s case, the provision stated:
“A. The following shall be considered aggravating circumstances:
“(1) The offender was engaged in the perpetration or attempted perpetration of aggravated rape, forcible rape, aggravated kidnapping, second degree kidnapping, aggravated burglary, aggravated arson, aggravated escape, assault by drive-by shooting, armed robbery, first degree robbery, or simple robbery.
. . . . .
“(10) The victim was under the age of twelve years or sixty-five years of age or older.”
The trial began in August 2003. L. H. was then 13 years old. She testified that she “ ‘woke up one morning and Patrick was on top of [her].’ ” She remembered petitioner bringing her “[a] cup of orange juice and pills chopped up in it” after the rape and overhearing him on the telephone saying she had become a “young lady.” 2005–1981, pp. 12, 15, 16 (La. 5/22/07), 957 So. 2d 757, 767, 769, 770. L. H. acknowledged that she had accused two neighborhood boys but testified petitioner told her to say this and that it was untrue. Id., at 769.
The jury having found petitioner guilty of aggravated rape, the penalty phase ensued. The State presented the testimony of S. L., who is the cousin and goddaughter of petitioner’s ex-wife. S. L. testified that petitioner sexually
abused her three times when she was eight years old and that the last time involved sexual intercourse. Id., at 772. She did not tell anyone until two years later and did not pursue legal action.
The jury unanimously determined that petitioner should be sentenced to death…
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Reax from Andrew McCarthy:
Even if you agree with their bottom line, do Justice Kennedy and the justices in Kennedy v. Louisiana have a clue about how offensive it is to write this line in rationalizing why a man who has savagely raped his eight-year-old step-daughter should not be executed by the humane process of lethal objection:
“Evolving standards of decency must embrace and express respect for the dignity of the person[.]”
And as for their “proportional” punishment argue, I think it’s silly on its face — read the almost unreadable (because it’s so excruciating) account of the rape and ask yourself whether it is really “disproportionate” to administer lethal-objection execution to a man who committed this type of barbaric a sexual assault on a child.
But let’s give him that one for argument’s sake. The Eighth Amendment talks about punishment that is cruel. First, punishment does not become cruel just because it’s disproportionate. And second, are we really striving here for proportionality? If a crime is cruel — as it clearly was in this case — wouldn’t a proportionate punishment also have to be cruel, and thus in violation of the Eighth Amendment?
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Get a rope.
The Supreme Court fails the people yet again.
Your death will come soon enough Patrick Kennedy, and eternal hellfire shortly after that.
Get 5 ropes.
I couldn’t finish reading it. Sickening.
I hope this bastard gets his in prison by becoming another inmate’s “wife”.
A hundred years ago he would have been hanged. Those were more civilized days.
I think this democratic legistlator is the type Obama would put on the Supreme Court
This was an inhuman crime, but God willing, this girl can hopefully lead a fulfilling life. I hate to cry “slippery slope” but I shudder to think of what crimes will end up punishable by death if any leeway is given beyond homicide cases.
God said, “Thall shall not kill,” and I will take that to heart not just on abortion but on capital punishment. It’s no simpler than that for me.
I agree with all of the preceding posts. Unimaginable.
That is a great point, but I’m sure Anthony Kennedy has never considered it. As Ann Coulter writes in her column this week:
One more reason to vote for McCain….
okay…I think I’m up to four now…
this is really stupid. the more the court awards special rights to menaces of society, the more reason there is for me to take the law into my own hands.
i’ve never, thank God, had to deal with child rape. but today’s ruling has made this much clear – i will not depend on the state to take care of the menace who hurts my child. it seems to me i have a better shot at being a vigilante and benefiting from these special rights, than being the victim.
Kiddie rapists and liberals: Perfect together.
One step at a time, SCOTUS is chipping away at the death penalty for ANY crime.
Crimes against children by adults are so hienus (spelling?), such as rape and kidnapping, (and if I could I’d add any other severe phyical abuse) that the death penalty was, and still is, warranted as a just punishment for those who put the most vulnerable and innocent of soceity in peril.
#6
It’s Thou shall not murder.
Besides, “everyone shall be put to death for his own sin.”
I guess you are also against self-defense and any type of war. You are right about abortion–the taking of INNOCENT life but not correct on capital punishment. Justice sometimes demands a forfeiture of one’s life and this has been supported by the Bible and traditional Catholic teaching.
Where the SCOTUS failed in the particulars of this case, the “petitioner” will recieve his justice in the Pen at the hands of other prisoners that make great sport of dealing with baby rapers.
His life expectancy can now be measured on a clock, not a calendar. It is predictable.
Non-elected judges that sit on the nations highest court obviously hold the welfare of children in pitiable low regard.
My sympathy goes to the child that was brutally raped. The petitioner had his day in court and awaits the judgement of his “peers”, the “court of last resort”.
Go back and learn the original greek and hebrew of how it was written. Murder has different implications. Patrick Kennedy is not innocent by any means, his victim was. Had she died of her massive trauma there would be no question he would have been put to death. A victim of a crime so horrific that she most likely would have died under similar circumstances happens to live through it and the perp gets life in a tax payer cell thanks to some liberal judges. That’s justice for you. /sarc
My idea of justice:
If this guy can outswim a great white shark while wearing chum-filled swim trunks, then let him go.
Even better…..
If he can outswim a great white shark with Justice Kennedy tied to his legs (and wearing chum-filled swim trunks), then let him go.
Yup. Whle we may have some doubt as to the kind of person McCain would appoint to SCOTUS, we’re absolutely sure that anyone the Obamessiah would appoint would join the majority in cases such as these.
It has to be McCain in ‘08
It is entirely inappropriate to use lynching rhetoric and anyone mentioning ropes or wishing death upon the 5 Justices should be ashamed of themselves.
It is certainly unusual in this country to execute those who haven’t killed another. Just because one case is especially barbaric doesn’t mean that one case should have an undue influence on the law of the land.
And the Coker precedent is pretty clear:
“The sentence of death for the crime of rape is grossly disproportionate and excessive punishment.”
I am perfectly happy with the rapist spending the rest of his life in jail.
AK, I especially love your Christian attitude. Hellfire for not killing someone? Where is that in Jesus’s teachings?
Call me CINO as much as you want. I admit I don’t always walk the walk when it comes to Christianity. But you are a fraud. At least have the self-awareness to admit it. Your Christianity is an angry one and has no relation to anything Jesus ever taught.
Actually, what God said was that we should not murder. The translation from the Hebrew to English in the days of King James wasn’t perfect.
Well, AK, I admit I owe you an apology. I got my Kennedies mixed up. I’m sorry.
Get a rope???
If the criminal is not going to get the death penalty, then I say, “Let’s get a knife“, and not a chemical knife, and see to it that he never has the ability to do anything remotely like that again.
I have heard that child rapists do not do so well in prison, I expect this criminal has a rough time ahead of him, and deservedly so.
Its just another example of “assasination chic” that this site is so fond of reporting about.
Unless it comes from Ann Coulter or some other conservative directed toward a Democrat. Then its just colorful/humorous language.
Rusty:
Righteous anger is not a sin. That son of a bitch who brutally raped that child deserves death and in the not too distant past, most, if not all, societies would have applied capital punishment for such a crime.
It is only of late that liberalism, in its most skewed, sentimental, and distorted sense of Christianity, promotes leniency for the most heinous of crimes against children, as well as supports the murder of children in the womb.
What is it with you liberals that make you love the criminal, yet hate children?
When should we, as a country, systematically apply the death penalty?
It’s not an easy question and one that we obviously still struggle with.
The one answer that is definitely not a right answer is one that takes into account our anger or disgust.
My heart goes out to the little girl and to all children whether male or female… who have been or will be brutilized ….
The same McCain who lavishes praise on Hillary Clinton, Ruth Ginsburg, and Stephen Breyer? Who thinks that Alito is too conservative (and by extension Roberts, Scalia and Thomas)?
I’m really angry with this one. Justice Kennedy wants terrorist to have rights under our constitution, and now he thinks an injection, is far crueler than a child rape. Who needs enemies, when you have a justice like this one? Bastard.
Anyone who imagines that rape and specifically child rape is not eligible for the death penalty is beyond help.
I do not agree that the death penalty can only be used with a life is taken.
I have no ability to understand how the child and the family where a child like this is placed can ever overcome this horror. Sure they may go on with life, but it is always there.
I often see people say that, child rapists are taken care of in prison.
What the hell does this mean?
One, are there even statistics that bear this out, or is it like so many other things, urban legend. Real statistics are what I would like to see if anyone has them. As far as I can see these rapists are often in and out of prison until they actually kill someone.
Two, are some hoping a killer in prison carries out punishment we as a society are unwilling to do? Does that make it better? WTF!
If we are willing to accept these rapists, doing this to our children, what else are we willing to accept?
The death penalty is overrated. It actually costs more to execute someone (with appeals and such) than it does to simply keep him caged. While it is true that the death penalty is a 100 percent effective deterent to crime (no one who has been executed has ever committed another crime) it is also true that caging someone for the rest of their life is, in many ways, very tormenting.
My biggest concern with this decision is the continued reliance on the “evolving standards” argument.
The Constitution says what it says. It doesn’t have a provision that says the Supreme Court can ignore the will of the people through their elected representatives. It also doesn’t say anything about it being a living document.
“Thou shall not murder” has no bearing here, as murder is simply the unjustified taking of life. Obviously any sanctioned taking of life is just, which is subjective, and thus, not murder.
It’s a weak argument when used with abortion, and a weak argument when used with capital punishment.
child rapist don’t do all that well in prisons, but thanks to the ACLU, they get special rights. they gets generally get solitary cells, knowing the prison population isn’t too kind to them, as well they’re separated from the most brutal of prison characters. they may not live a great life, but it’s certainly more life than they deserve.
OldCollegeGuy,
When do you feel that the death penalty should be used?
soon I suspect a lot of folks will be by passing our judicial system, at least the part for the original criminal.
Whatever happened to the Constitution?
I remember we had one, once…
Now – to my R friends and R apologists:
Anthony Kennedy>>>>wasn’t he appointed by a REPUBLICAN President…..???????!!!!!!!!!
HMMMMMMMM……..
mpchops;
Child Rape is a good place to start with for using the death penalty.
Since that is topic of this thread, I would use it for this crime.
This is a simplistic way to look at it though. It works in terms of executing those who commit murder while already serving life in prison, but that’s a pretty small sample of crimes. (Though I am against the death penalty in all cases for moral grounds, this is the strongest case for capital punishment I’ve seen.)
The death penalty isn’t a deterrent in the more macro sense. Committing a heinous crime usually involves such sickness (psycho/sociopaths) or bad decision making that one rarely thinks of the consequences of their actions.
And, since I’m here, let me reiterate my apology to AK. I’m expecting him to leave me a scathing comment and I admit I probably deserve it.
these kennedys get away with murder
It appears as we await the Heller decision the court has already has given us insight into their decision. We will likely have no right to bear arms after their decision. If we want to rid ourselves of the perps in the future we will probably have to buy handguns illegally to do so.
And, yet there is the chance McCain could be persuaded to appoint more moderate or conservative candidates. And, tell us, exactly what influence we would have over the Obamessiah?
McCain or Obama in ‘08. One of them wins. We may not like that, but it is becoming that much less of a difficult choice to make.
But at least Justice Kennedy will be popular with his European friends he likes to vacation with, and the DC cocktail party circuit.
Methinks it is not excessive if you are the rape victim.
Rapists kill something very special in their victims.
You’ll forgive me, but I fail to see the humor in anything within this thread.
You can’t blame Kennedy on Republicans. He nominated after Bork had been rejected, when it became clear to Ronald Reagan he couldn’t get a real conservative through a Democrat Senate.
I can, however, blame Republicans for not returning the favor when Clinton sent up ACLU abortion rights lawyer Bader-Ginsburg. But, playing fair, the Republican Senate followed the traditional understanding of advise and consent, and approved the Marxist hag.
It was an OT snipe. Inappropriate considering the subject. Withdrawn.
It isn’t intended to be a deterrent, although I understand that frustrated people frequently make that argument. It is, as with all sentences, a punishment – the ultimate punishment (barring some sort of torture, which of course is what “cruel and unusual” was intended to mean IMO) which is reserved for the most heinous of crimes. It is the intervention of liberal courts that has made it meaningless in the deterrent sense, though, since none of these criminals expects to actually be executed, at least within any reasonable amount of time. I don’t doubt that many of them live longer, and better, than they otherwise would have.
God killed a lot of people. Sodom ring a bell CINO?
And for those who do not like the death penalty, how about if we renamed it to
“Drug Assisted Permanent Heart Stoppage.”
Ooops, now I wish I had read further before posting.
The commandment is – Thou shall not murder. And I issued it as a correction to someone who is ill-informed. Nothing more and nothing less.
#44 – 30 – Well said…
If McCain does pull the upset, unless the very unlikely happens (a bigger upset than McCain beating Obama), a Republican Senate, McCain wouldn’t be able to get a real conservative on the court if he wanted to.
The best that can be hoped for are Sandra Day O’Connor type moderates, who vote correctly a little over half the time.
But I’ll bet big money, if the Obamunist does win, (and if he wins, he will have a solid majority in the Senate), the elderly libs will retire off the courts to allow Obama to appoint more ACLU lawyers to Federal courts, and he’ll appoint fairly young judges and justices, who’ll pollute our legal system for decades.
It was also a totally specious and ill-informed snipe. This blog has been consistently critical of assassination chic on both the left and right and critical of over-the-top rhetoric from Coulter.
If you don’t bother to read the content of this site before you comment, maybe you should keep your comments to yourself.
Kennedy>>>>>>>REPUBLICAN appointeee….
McCain– has reached so far across the aisle that he coalesced with the VERY liberal Sen. Kennedy!!!!
Now, I am assuming the good Sen. Kennedy is no relation to the child rapist-P. Kennedy nor to the good SC Justice A.Kennedy.
The Mc apoligists brought it up so>>>>
LOTE anyone!!!!!!!
I realize that Justice Kennedy was appointed by Reagan just as Souter was appointed by # 41. Presidents do it get wrong sometime.
Again, I’d like to see this individual put out to pasture to never be seen or heard from again.
We should all remember to pray for this dear little girl and for all those who have had this happen to them. Their lives will never be the same again.
Nominated by Reagan after Bork was rejected by a Dem Senate for being conservative.
Unless you think Reagan was a RINO?
Souter is/was a closet case in more ways than one. From what I understand, he purposely misled Bush 41 on his views, and obviously John Sununu did a craptastic job checking his credentials.
He’s a liberal “lawyer”. He’s constitutionally incapable of keeping his comments to himself.
It’s “devolving” standards of decency that led to this decision. Apparently, our “living” constitution is evolving away from a representive democracy and toward an oligarchy ruled by an elite group of senile leftist lawyers. Sorry, but that’s devolution not evolution.
I’m sorry, but Mrs. Malkin’s comment is so misguided that it’s hilarious. The comment wasn’t directed at you, Mrs. Malkin. It was directed to the posters saying we should lynch Supreme Court justices. You and Chap, theoretically, agree! So why single him out for criticism instead of Paul Trommer (comment 3)?
I appreciate the anti-assassination chic stuff. We agree! But this should be a lesson that you can’t control the dumb things posters write. So holding Kos responsible for his merry band of morons leaving comments is kind of dirty pool when the same problem occasionally pops up here.
Deterrence and peace of mind for survivors (family and friends) are among the several justifications for capital punishment. Another big one for me that is seldom mentioned is that keeping them alive is punishing the innocent. Why should innocent taxpayers have to pay to keep these crap stains alive? One child rapist/murderer kept in prison for life ends up costing taxpayers millions of dollars…just one of them!!! I don’t want one of my hard-earned dollars spent on the comfort of mruderers and child rapists. Execute them without remorse and do it quickly to save our tax dollars.
This person had all the respect he had earned from the world.
Right up to the minute he decided to rape an 8 year old child.
Now he has only our attention, not respect.
I fail to see where Kennedy embraced or expressed respect for the dignity of this poor little girl. Why is “dignity” reserved for the perpetrator and not the victim?
I hope the child rapist gets some jail house justice.
Child molesters, from what I understand, aren’t popular in prison.
El Mahmoud writes:
“Obamunist” I like that! Perfect nickname for him. He is a real danger for the future of our country.
Christian soldier writes:
Sadly, true. It was probably the worst thing Reagan did–try to appease liberals in Congress after Bork. It does affect his legacy. As much as some conservatives gripe about Bush, he has been better than Reagan on Supreme Court justices and deserves a lot of credit for it.
Killing a convict costs way more money than keeping someone in jail for an extended period of time (we’re talking decades and prison life expectancy isn’t too high).
The solution to that is to severely limit a convict’s appeals, but I urge people to reconsider that strategy. If the government is in the business of killing people, we have to be absolutely certain to get it right. Appeals are necessary or else the system fails.
Except for the unborn and 8 year old girs, apparently.
If someone wants to organize a drive for a constitutional admendment that says capital punishment for child rapists isn’t cruel and unusual punishment as defined in the 8th, I’d probably Pay-Pal a few dollars to the cause.
When a court is out of control, and creates new rights from thin air, and applies rights in a manner inconsistent with the will of the peoplem and the original framers, only constitutional admendments can reign them in.
Whoops, “girls” vice “girs”.
Sorry, you mess with our children like this and I don’t have a problem with you spending the rest of your life watching them stick the needle in your arm.
The New York Times makes a Faustian bargain with Supreme Court justices. If you join us, we will give you a Jarrow written cover story on the Sunday New York Times Magazine. You will then be allowed to appear as a hero at all Ivy League Law Schools. Law school professors will write worshipful articles about you for their law reviews. You will be allowed to have a Bill Moyers interview. Justice Souter, desperate for this attention, became a liberal’s liberal. In turn, he got the coveted Jarrow article and cover on the Times Sunday Magazine. Linda Greenfield wrote lovingly about him. The New Republic doted on him. Anthony Kennedy, jealous of all this attention, recently made the same Faustian bargain with the New York Times. Bill Keller’s approval means so much to Justice Kennedy. It is really just sad to see these grown men so pathetic, like the nerds at the high school football game who are desperate that the jocks on the field let them pal around with them.
Nonsense. God said, “Thall shall not murder,” which is a command for individuals. However, government is supposed to wield the sword of justice, not individuals. In fact, God’s law in the Old Testament would clearly condemn this man to death.
Your argument against capital punishment doesn’t make sense because you are appropriating the authority of the government, granted by God, in carrying out His judgment.
Exactly, and next time Rusty if a judge and the perp have the same last name I’ll try and not use both their last names in the same paragraph so it is less confusing. My hoping for the wrath of God was reserved for the righteous anger at a child rapist. I certainly wasn’t calling on that for the judges, they simply made a poor choice in their judgement and I wish they had looked more carefully on what constitutes the death penalty other than murder.
Anyhow, now that some of us have jumped to conclusions I digress… and hope that little girl gets to lead a normal life with a family that will love her.
Rusty, I guess your folks never taught you that you don’t insult the hostess or host in their house, did they? Or if they did, it is a lesson lost on you now.
Gabe
Reagan tried. There was no way Ted Kennedy et al (recall Kennedy’s hysterical claims that Bork would bring back segregated lunch counters) were going to confirm a real conservative.
GWB had a Republican Senate for Roberts and Alito.
If another vacancy comes open, GWB can nominate all the constitutionalists he wants, and they will all be rejected before he sends up another ‘moderate’ who the Dems think will vote with the extreme libs at least some of the time.
I think Thomas Jefferson would disagree…
I hope these liberal judges rot in hell. along with the s*b that did this, hopefully demons will rape him repeatedly…
until we get out from under the tyranny of judicial review, we will continue to live in a judicial tyranny.
this is sick and pathetic.
I can’t take this anymore! This type of story is becoming all too common! The more evil and sadistic the crime, the more the liberal judges seem to take pity…on the perpetrator! I’m fuming right now. I’ve decided to run for public office, and I will fix this problem. I understand that the leftists in this country are loony, but what about those “compassionate” conservatives. Where are they! Why is it more important to talk about gas prices and gay marriage, than to talk about the victimization of our children, not just by pedophiles, but by the “justice” system that is supposed to be protecting them? This is not a new problem! This has been happening for years! Thank you Michelle. Thank you for bringing this atrocity to our attention.
I see number three, but I would call that poster not posters.
Not if our government actually delivered on the “right to a fair and speedy trial“. Your argument is only true for a system that suffers under a massive amount of bureaucracy. I believe in 1 appeal and execution within 1 week of the verdict.
Rusty, I agree that we need to do everything possible to make sure that innocents are not executed. But our appeals system, which often drags on for decades, is nothing more than a liberal scheme to prevent capital punishment. I challenge your assertion that it is cheaper to keep them alive rather than execute them. We probably do spend more money on execution than is necessary, but you will never convince me that 20 years or so on death row is less expensive than execution after a year or two of reasonable appeals. I forgot to mention how smiley the lawyers are over the overly long appeals times…more money in their accounts. All of that taxpayers money should go to restoring the victims families and other good works and not a dollar to the crap stains beyond a reasonable defense.
Which as we all know is when a lawyer kills an uncooperative witness in court. Humanely.
Thank you, thank you, good night everybody.
Don’t worry AK, reading comprehension is a skill that can be learned!
Connecting the dots can be fun! Men retain their unalienable rights and free-will by their Creator (aka God) and governments derive their powers from the consent of those men who got their freedom and free-will from their Creator. Tough one, I know
Actually, I think if a SCOTUS justice died now, the Senate would take no action to approve a nominee before November, no matter who Bush sent up, hoping for an Obama victory that would allow him to appoint a dedicated judicial activist liberal.
Does anyone know if this child rapist, Kennedy, (actually this child was raped by both Kennedy’s), but I want to know if this rapist has endorsed Obama yet?
I remember when I was in college and we were discussing this whole death penalty thing. Someone once said, ” In my mind, God delivers mercy, I, on the other hand, would choose to deliver justice!”
Justice has not been served by this decision. As a human being, I am ashamed of the 5 justices who had to once again legislate. The victim here, and for once we’re talking about a true victim, has not found her justice, nor will she. God forgive me, but I want that man dead.
Lets see, it’s o.k. to kill an innocent unborn child by abortion but not o.k. to kill such a sick twisted individual that rapes children?
Sick.
So, suddenly, on this issue, you’re concerned about spending, lol. Typical.
The difference is, unlike KOS, such postings here are the exception, not the rule. And the reason for that is KOS members take their cues from the head man himself who has no problem making the ridiculous comments he does. I guess next you’ll be telling us he can’t control his own dumb posts, or those of the other official bloggers there.
Very well stated, Mr Mack. This is the point that should concern all Americans in that with an ever “evolving standards” policy, all power is removed from the people. Our congressional representatives at all levels of government cannot legislate without knowing the standards. Likewise, our executive branches cannot enforce the laws. We have to regain control of the judicial branch of government and return them to up-holding the standard of the US Constitution.
This is how the Third Reich got away with it.
Could not have said it better myself.
These perverts need to be hung in public.
What is this nonsense about “disproportionate”–the ultimate penalty seems very “proportionate “to me in this case. Justice Kennedy must not really understand any of this. However, life in prison would be my second choice if only the taxpayers did not have to pay for it. I wonder what fate awaits this guy in prison?
grumbles,
still waiting for you to post something of substance…
*not holding my breath*
Why am I not surprised, now those of us who support capital punishment are NAZI’s…. c’mon grumbles…. you had no cajones to say ” Nazi”?