The Left's Jihad Against Capital Punishment

Yesterday saw a victory for the Left in its jihad against the death penalty. The Supreme Court decided to invent a right for convicted murderers below the age of 18 not to be executed. Never mind what the voter thinks. This is what enlightened opinion, meaning liberals, want! Never mind that American voters overwhelmingly FAVOR capital punishment. (If asked, my guess is that Euro voters would too.)

I have always suspected that the Left opposes capital punishment simplybecause it favors crime. It sees crime as a sort of social movement of protest against injustice. And besides, most leftists live in the safe suburbs. The opposition to execution is clearly not because the Left thinks human life is of value. Human lives are SAVED when murderers are executed. And in any case the Left has made it clear that the lives of humans it does not like, such as US Marines, Israeli children, and Sudanese non-Moslems, just do not count for much. The argument that the death penalty costs too much money is typical liberal poppycock. Similarly, the liberal invention of innocent people having been executed has also been thoroughly debunked.

There are lots of arguments one can make in favor of the death penalty, even for minors. If the death penalty does in fact deter violent crime, and it does, then why should it be ruled out for those murderers shy of their 18th birthday. Would it not deter OTHERS shy of their 18th?

Liberal agittprop notwithstanding, there is enormous evidence that the death penalty does in fact deter violent crime, including this and this and this and this. Accuracy in Media has documented liberal bias in the media over the issue. Even some Europeans endorse the death penalty.

The Bible itself is unambiguously in favor of capital punishment, whether or not it deters. Death penalty for terrorists is even more clearly a moral imperative. Amnesty International and its sister NGOs of the Left are of course opposed to it.

Despite all this, the Supreme Court ruling shows that liberal "judicial activism" still can call the shots, even after all these years of Republican reign. Here is the Wall Street Journal on the ruling:

"Mr. Kennedy rests his decision on his assertion that American society has reached a "national consensus" against capital punishment for juveniles, and that laws allowing it contravene modern "standards of decency." His evidence for this "consensus" is that of the 38 states that permit capital punishment, 18 have laws prohibiting the execution of murderers under the age of 18. As we do the math, that's a minority of 47% of those states. The dozen states that have no death penalty offer no views about special immunity for juveniles -- and all 12 permit 16- and 17-year-olds to be treated as adults when charged with non-capital offenses.
This idea of invoking state laws to define a "consensus" also runs up against any number of notable Supreme Court precedents, including Roe v. Wade. When Roe was decided in 1973, all 50 states had some prohibition against abortion on the books. But never mind."