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California's death penalty ruled unconstitutional
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California's death penalty ruled unconstitutional
Prohibit the death penalty because it isn't implemented enough??That's what
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Given the nasty side effects on the people charged with the duty of enacting an execution order .... I'm all for any excuse being used to abandon the practice.1Cor 15:34 Come to your senses as you ought and stop sinning; for I say to your shame, there are some who know not God.
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Originally posted by Spartacus View PostIsn't that what "unusual" means?That's what
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Without a clear-cut definition of sin, morality becomes a mere argument over the best way to train animals
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Originally posted by Bill the Cat View PostNo. "Unusual" was included in the Bill of Rights as a redacted form of England's 1689 English Bill of Rights, and specifically the excessive bail clause. The American colonial understanding was that the ban applied to torturous punishments such as pillorying, disemboweling, decapitation, and drawing and quartering. Inasmuch as such punishments were virtually absent in colonial America, Justice Joseph Story in his Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States believed that "[t]he provision would seem wholly unnecessary in a free government, since it is scarcely possible, that any department of such government should authorize, or justify such atrocious conduct." In 1976, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger declared that the Framers meant to ban only punishments not prescribed by law as well as tortuous punishments, but subsequent decisions have strayed from the historic meaning of the term in what Chief Justice Warren termed "evolving standards of decency". (http://www.heritage.org/constitution...ual-punishment)Don't call it a comeback. It's a riposte.
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Originally posted by Bill the Cat View Post
Prohibit the death penalty because it isn't implemented enough??
I don't think his remedy is correct even though I actually oppose the DP. I can agree to the vacating but the constitutionality isn't really the issue. There were other options the judge should have taken.
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I think it's fairly inevitable that some years down the road, SCOTUS will rule it unconstitutional for the entire US, but not with the current court makeup. This course was set into action when the Court considered other nations' practices when prohibiting the execution of people who were 17 at the time of their crimes a few years ago. States that infrequently execute are starting to abandon the death penalty one by one as well. (There's only a few states that do consistently perform executions.)"I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill
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