Comments on: Supreme Court Takes Up Child Rape Death Penalty Case http://jonathanturley.org/2008/01/05/supreme-court-takes-up-child-rape-death-penalty-case/ Res ipsa loquitur ("The thing itself speaks") Mon, 28 May 2012 08:13:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Vincent Caminiti http://jonathanturley.org/2008/01/05/supreme-court-takes-up-child-rape-death-penalty-case/#comment-5503 Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:37:50 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/2008/01/05/supreme-court-takes-up-child-rape-death-penalty-case/#comment-5503 The representations from the Lea Hall, as cited above, clearly demonstrate that much of society equates vengeance with justice. In my opinion, this is outrage mixed with local political theater. This transcends morbid curiosity – perhaps morbid gratification.

We are a brutal lot, yet we don’t want to admit it. While the underlying cases are deeply disturbing, we would prefer to exterminate the offender as to distance him from the rest of our violent human race. We could easily incarcerate the offender for like – but then we’d still have to look at him. He makes us sick … so we should exterminate him ???

If anything should ever be taken off-the-table, it shouldn’t be impeachment, it should be the power of our legal system to end human life unless the owner of that life requests it to be ended.

]]> By: deeply worried http://jonathanturley.org/2008/01/05/supreme-court-takes-up-child-rape-death-penalty-case/#comment-5463 Sat, 05 Jan 2008 15:05:12 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/2008/01/05/supreme-court-takes-up-child-rape-death-penalty-case/#comment-5463 There’s an interesting recap of Justice Kennedy’s peregrinations on death penalty cases at the NY ACLU site:

http://www.nyclu.org/node/1311

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