November 10, 2009, - 12:18 pm
Quote of the Day: Supremes Reconsider Life Sentences for Juvie Thugs
Last month, I published a column on, Sullivan v. Florida and Graham v. Florida, two cases the U.S. Supreme Court is considering, which challenge life sentences in prison for juveniles, claiming they are cruel and unusual punishment. There are 110 juvenile convicts, nationwide, who are serving life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Joe Sullivan: At 13, He Raped 72-Year-Old.
As I noted then, at least one of the parties challenging this, Joe Sullivan, is in prison for life for a very good reason: he raped a 72-year-old woman. And that was after 17 other offenses, including animal cruelty. As the judge in the case noted, he’s hopeless.
Yesterday, the Supremes heard oral arguments on the case.
In a similar previous case, Roper–which eliminated the death penalty for juveniles, Justice Anthony Kennedy voted with the liberals on the court and, in fact, wrote the decision.
But perhaps he’s seen the light. Justice Anthony Kennedy’s question to liberal lawyers in the case is priceless:
Why does a juvenile have a constitutional right to hope, but an adult does not?
The lawyer’s answer wasn’t convincing.
Oh, and of course, leave it to hypocritical double-standard Terrorist News Network Al-Jazeera to use the life sentences for these thugs to show the world how “inhumane” we are. How many years in prison do you think these “kids” would get in a Muslim nation, where Jazeera is popular, or in Qatar, where it is based and funded?
Answer: none. They’d be instantly tortured to death, in any of these places.
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[Debbie-How many years in prison do you think these “kids” would get in a Muslim nation, where Jazeera is popular, or in Qatar, where it is based and funded?
Answer: none. They’d be instantly tortured to death, in any of these places.]
I believe that is not correct for the rape charge. According to Islamic law, the woman must be severely punished if she has sex outside of marriage where she is not raped. In order to prove rape 4 men must have witnessed it (implied is that none of the men stopped the rape).
This is why woman do not report rapes in Islamic countries. If the rape cannot be proven (and it almost never is due to the constraints I just mentioned) the woman is severely punished. She has admitted to the sex by reporting the rape, and since the rape cannot be proven she is considered to have consented.
DM: Wrong with Black guys, as these two guys are. In fact, there are several cases of Black men being beheaded in Saudi Arabia’s Chop-Chop Square for merely having their hands accidentally brush against the hands of Arab Muslim females. DS
David Makowsky on November 10, 2009 at 12:41 pm