My former alt-paper colleague Steve Barnett, now a first-year law student, has a detailed but accessible examination of Roper v. Simmons, the case the Supreme Court just used to overturn the juvenile death penalty. He disagrees with the decision, but finds most of the reasons for disagreeing with the majority opinion wanting. For the record I’m part of that weird subset of righties who are very uncomfortable with the death penalty itself, but because it’s used relatively little (“relatively” being, well, relative), don’t get worked up about it as much as, say, unrestricted abortion and Sudanese genocide.
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