Supreme Court Saves Cop Killer and Rapist of Pregnant Woman Who Gouged Out Eyes

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Supreme Court Saves Cop Killer and Rapist of Pregnant Woman Who Gouged Out Eyes

May 27, 2014 by Daniel Greenfield

 

The worst part of this case is that the murders took place in 1978. If there’s anyone on earth who deserves to die more than Freddie Hall, it would be a challenge to find him. But liberals are attracted to evil the way that flies are to honey. And so Hall will live.

 

Unfortunately we no longer have the rule of law in which legislatures make laws and courts carry them out. Instead we have judges unconstitutionally legislating their own laws.

 

And thanks to Justice Anthony Kennedy, also known as Reagan’s biggest mistake, Freddie Hall will go on living.

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Opinion analysis: A new limit on the death penalty

 

By Lyle Denniston on May 27, 2014 at 12:03 pm

 

Analysis

Twelve years after leaving it to the states to decide when an individual convicted of murder was too intellectually incapacitated to be executed, a divided Supreme Court on Tuesday withdrew some of that discretion. The states, the five-to-four majority ruled, cannot use a fixed IQ score as the measure of incapacity to be put to death. “Intellectual incapacity,” the Court said, “is a condition, not a number.”

But even the new attempt at guidance may have left some uncertainty. While states were told that they cannot make an IQ test score anywhere above 70 as permission for an individual’s execution, it did say that it was not ruling on whether a state could set the fixed score at 75 or above, and use that alone as the measure.

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