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Topic: Cool !!! Obama disagrees with High Court !!!
Rapunzel's photo
Wed 06/25/08 03:40 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080625/ap_on_el_pr/obama_child_rape_case


Obama disagrees with high court on child rape case By SARA KUGLER, Associated Press Writer
36 minutes ago


CHICAGO - Democrat Barack Obama said Wednesday he disagrees with the Supreme Court's decision outlawing executions of child rapists.



"I have said repeatedly that I think that the death penalty should be applied in very narrow circumstances for the most egregious of crimes," Obama said at a news conference. "I think that the rape of a small child, 6 or 8 years old, is a heinous crime and if a state makes a decision that under narrow, limited, well-defined circumstances the death penalty is at least potentially applicable that that does not violate our Constitution."

The court's 5-4 decision Wednesday struck down a Louisiana law that allows capital punishment for people convicted of raping children under 12, saying it violates the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

The ruling 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. It 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.

Obama said that had the court "said we want to constrain the abilities of states to do this to make sure that it's done in a careful and appropriate way, that would have been one thing. But it basically had a blanket prohibition and I disagree with that decision."

Obama has long supported the death penalty while criticizing the way it is sometimes applied.

As an Illinois legislator, he helped rewrite the state's death penalty system to guard against innocent people being sentenced to die. The new safeguards included requiring police to videotape interrogations and giving the state Supreme Court more power to overturn unjust decisions.

He also opposed legislation making it easier to impose the death penalty for murders committed as part of gang activity. Obama argued the language was too vague and could be abused by authorities.

But Obama has never rejected the death penalty entirely. He supported death sentences for killing volunteers in community policing programs and for particularly cruel murders of elderly people.

"While the evidence tells me that the death penalty does little to deter crime, I believe there are some crimes — mass murder, the rape and murder of a child — so heinous, so beyond the pale, that the community is justified in expressing the full measure of its outrage by meting out the ultimate punishment," he wrote in his book "The Audacity of Hope."

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I personally think :cry:

that if very very severe penalties are not imposed

on these vicious predators & perpetrators...devil


they will continue to hurt our children sad

& stop at nothing noway

to try & satisfy their extremely sadistic sick

demented sick, twisted vicious perversions explode

adj4u's photo
Wed 06/25/08 03:46 PM
no more special wards to protect them

i guess they should put them in general population

and let the rest of the population take care of them

just a thought

but hey

what do i know

cplichristmd's photo
Wed 06/25/08 03:48 PM
they will die in prison soon enough

adj4u's photo
Wed 06/25/08 03:51 PM

they will die in prison soon enough



and it wont be kind neither

MirrorMirror's photo
Wed 06/25/08 03:52 PM


they will die in prison soon enough



and it wont be kind neither
huh What are you talking about?huh

sick Sounds psychosick

adj4u's photo
Wed 06/25/08 03:54 PM



they will die in prison soon enough



and it wont be kind neither
huh What are you talking about?huh

sick Sounds psychosick


that is Psychic not psycho

drinker

Rapunzel's photo
Wed 06/25/08 03:55 PM

no more special wards to protect them

i guess they should put them in general population

and let the rest of the population take care of them

just a thought

but hey

what do i know




happy Hey Adj drinker cool dude drinker Thank you so much happy


drinker that sounds absolutely wonderful to me drinker


smokin while the prison guards turn their backs smokin


bigsmile whistle a tune & ever so calmly walk away bigsmile


devil as the evil predators terrible karma comes back devil


bigsmile with a mighty swift & killing vengeance upon them bigsmile






MirrorMirror's photo
Wed 06/25/08 03:55 PM
Edited by MirrorMirror on Wed 06/25/08 03:56 PM
:heart: I hope nobody dies in prison :heart:


MirrorMirror's photo
Wed 06/25/08 03:56 PM
:heart: I want to free the enslaved :heart:

Rapunzel's photo
Wed 06/25/08 03:56 PM

they will die in prison soon enough




drinker drinker drinker drinker drinker drinker drinker

adj4u's photo
Wed 06/25/08 03:57 PM

:heart: I hope nobody dies in prison :heart:





especially the kids they attack

MirrorMirror's photo
Wed 06/25/08 03:57 PM


they will die in prison soon enough



and it wont be kind neither
laugh like your kind ?laugh

Rapunzel's photo
Wed 06/25/08 03:59 PM

:heart: I hope nobody dies in prison :heart:






noway i don't care if evil people die in prison...noway



drinker more tax dollars for those who actually deserve it drinker

adj4u's photo
Wed 06/25/08 04:01 PM



they will die in prison soon enough



and it wont be kind neither
laugh like your kind ?laugh


what about my kind

huh tell me

what about my kind

laugh laugh laugh

MirrorMirror's photo
Wed 06/25/08 04:02 PM


:heart: I hope nobody dies in prison :heart:






noway i don't care if evil people die in prison...noway



drinker more tax dollars for those who actually deserve it drinker
flowerforyou I dont want my tax dollars imprisoning peopleflowerforyou A lot of those people inprison are innocent or they didnt get a fair trial.flowerforyou The system is brokeflowerforyou

MirrorMirror's photo
Wed 06/25/08 04:04 PM




they will die in prison soon enough



and it wont be kind neither
laugh like your kind ?laugh


what about my kind

huh tell me

what about my kind

laugh laugh laugh
Your kinds not kind

huh I told you

that about your kind



laugh laugh laugh

no photo
Wed 06/25/08 09:39 PM
These sick b*astards should be slaughtered in the most brutal way posible. They gave up their right to be considered human, and there for protected by the constitution from things that are considered cruel, when they commited these depraved acts.

Lindyy's photo
Wed 06/25/08 09:48 PM

:heart: I want to free the enslaved :heart:


WHAT?
noway

Rapunzel's photo
Wed 06/25/08 09:50 PM

These sick b*astards should be slaughtered in the most brutal way posible. They gave up their right to be considered human, and there for protected by the constitution from things that are considered cruel, when they commited these depraved acts.



I agree completely drinker

.the only way those sick bastards devil

are going to get the message :angry:

is when they have done to them mad

what they do to others...devil


vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord....drinker


but some vengeance needs to be administered happy

a lot sooner than the Last judgement laugh drinker smokin drinker laugh

Rapunzel's photo
Wed 06/25/08 09:52 PM


:heart: I want to free the enslaved :heart:


WHAT?noway







drinker {{{{{ <<<<< Lindyy >>>>> }}}}}drinker


i know what you are saying...flowerforyou


notice how i just skipped over that comment laugh

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