Military law is where the criminal law was 100years ago. Look at the Iraq war and the related war crimes. The vast majority of people do not support military law. The Justices were correct.

I am surprised that it was not brought up about international law and the laws of the more progressive states in Europe. Even the Vatican does not allow for the Death Penalty.

I do not understand how one can consider themself as liberal while advocating the death of an individual who has been neutralized through incarceration. The added insult to our democratic principles is that the offender himself did not end another individual's life, yet the punishment deemed appropriate by some is death. It does not sound like justice, rather murderous vengence.

Of course the vatican would not support the death penalty, especially for child rapists... they'd have no priests left if they all got caught. I support it for child rape. Do you not realize that 80% of all people in prison in this incarceration society were attacked as children? That is a fact. So, criminality in the USA is 80% to be left at the feet of pedophiles. They are the absolute worst criminals of all. Identify them, locate them, eradicate them. They are predators, not human beings, and deserve to be treated as the dangerous subhuman vermin they are.

captain chris, what would Jesus say about your blood thirst? Do you think that he supports killing people? You are out of touch with the modern world. The EU has abolished the death penalty. They are so much more socially advanced than us "gun clingers".

Personally, I do not care what Jesus would say about it. I believe that the Jesus myth is just that, moreover, a means by which to blind the minds of those stupid enough to listen to the truly evil among us, and revere the same. Most, if not all wickedness in this word can be attributed directly to organized religion as the source.

Captain, you are right. Look at the biggest Jewish right wing nut, Moses. He had a policy of genocide to steal the land from the original inhabitants. (Moses's policy for genocide is all in the Bible, but wasn't he an Egyptian and married to a Black woman? ) Modern day Zionists base their right to the land on this ancient first Hitler. What goes around comes around. We live in the 21st Century. Say no to Zionism, say no to racism.

Here is the case in question:
"Kennedy was sentenced to die in 2003 for sexually assaulting his 8 year old stepdaughter in her bed. The crime occurred in a quiet neighborhood in Harvey, across the big river from New Orleans. Besides severe emotional trauma, Louisiana prosecutors said the attack caused internal injuries and bleeding to the child, requiring extensive surgery."
Now you tell me, should this man die, or not? Didn't that little girl die a little that awful night and every night since?
Since it's unlawful for us to torture him in the same way he did to this child, isn't the death penalty actually humane?
As for Jesus and the concept of evil, Patrick Kennedy chose, of his own free will and actions, evil, not good and therefore sealed his fate. Jesus said 'An evil man out of the evil things in his heart speaks and does evil things.' It is time now for Kennedy to die on this earth. If there is another realm, he will meet that judgement all the more quickly.