Obama Sticks Up For Texas’ Right To Execute Child Predators
So the Supreme Court ruled against individual state laws allowing the death penalty against child predators, including in Texas. This, of course, prompted every soft on crime liberal in the state to stand up and cheer. Think I’m being facetious, just go visit Burnt Orange Report. That is, of course, all but one liberal. Obviously inspired by the positive book review he received on a Texas conservative blog, Presidential Candidate Barack Obama has come out against the Court’s ruling.
From the rock star himself…
“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.”
This has to be breaking liberal hearts everywhere, their poster-boy standing up for Republican backed laws passed in many states across the nation. I hate to do it (and I still won’t vote for him) but I have to give the Devil his dues and acknowledge that Senator Obama has shown the potential to look outside of the liberal box. Either that or he is really running hard in that race to the middle.
But back to the issue at hand, the Court’s ruling. According to a majority of the Justices, death penalty in the case of child rape is unconstitutional because execution is not a proportional punishment for sexually abusing minors. To be fair to the Supreme Court, a lifetime of being raped while in prison does sound more eye for an eye.
For me, this issue boils down real simple. People who repeatedly sexually abuse children deserve neither a place in our society, or a bed in our prisons. Frankly with this one, I’d love to back to courthouse hangings.
It may sound a lot like settling on who you take to the prom, but the silver lining in the dark cloud is that Texas wisely crafted its own law to allow for life without parole for repeat offenders in the event that the Supreme Court ever did rule this way.
On an entertaining note, how much do you want to bet that somewhere right now, Bolton, Cohen and Donna Howard (my own Golden Girls) are all toasting a drink and sighing a deep breath of relief, thankful that the Supreme Court has taken the attention away from their votes against Jessica’s Law?
Supreme Court ruling or not, I’d still be tempted to run a mail piece against them.