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Court reins in death
No executions for rape of a child
The death penalty remains a fact of life in the United States, but its reach just got a bit shorter. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last Thursday that the Constitution doesn't permit execution as punishment for raping a child, or for most any offense in which the victim wasn't killed. That's good.
Capital punishment is an abomination. It is fraught with error and doesn't deter crime. The United...
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