Friday, March 04, 2005

Cruel and Unusual Jurisprudence / The New York Times, 4 Mar 2005

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/04/opinion/04weisberg.html?th&oref=login
"Not only did the court outlaw the death penalty for those who kill before they turn 18, but its analysis could easily lead to additional constitutional constraints on capital punishment.
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Yet it is doubtful that the court will follow the national trend of skepticism about the death penalty any further. More likely, the case is the last exhausted gasp of a very strange jurisprudence that the court will now be happy to put to rest. "