From Reply 1 above:
"It’s heartbreaking to see a 13-year-old girl so thoroughly corrupted by the evil of the world that it doesn’t seem she can be rehabilitated."
Hogwash.
My proposal for a Constitutional amendment (which I first posted here years ago, but will repeat):
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"This Constitution recognizes capital punishment to be an appropriate penalty pursuant to the due process of law.
As such, no Court of the United States, nor of the Several States, may declare the death penalty invalid under this Constitution, nor shall any of the Several States enact laws that do the same.
No person in the United States, nor in the several States, shall face capital punishment unless above the age of twelve years and six months."
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How's that hit ya...?
Like crap.
If a state doesn't want to execute it's criminals, that's up to the state.
Someone violating federal law, though, like say...stealing a presidential election or giving 150 gigabucks to a sponsor of international terrorism like Iran, it's fine to execute those people. It a national duty, really.
But if someone can't be rehabilitated, then they certainly can't be allowed out in civil society again, and thus they will be kept in prison for the rest of their lives. That's just cruelty. Like New York's Governor Cuomo said (the first one, not the philandering mass-murdering one they have now), "it's okay to abort children if their quality of life is going to be poor."
My own notion is that since the death penalty is sooo expensive because of the bottom-feeding lawyers, then people should not be sentenced to execution. Nor should people be sentenced to life in prison, with all the benefits that gives them.
Sentence them to "Death in Prison". They go to prison, get to wear a really cool jumpsuit nobody else there wears, and they get food just like anyone else. But if they're assaulted by the animals, well, that's what they themselves are. No need for the guards to get their hands dirty, right? If they get injured, well, hell, that's what animals do to each other in the jungle, so no need to a human doctor to be called in, right? Then they die. Their life in prison is over.
While they are serving their terms, hopefully they're not in there for too long, the lawyers can file all the pointless appeals they can think of. But the sentence is executed upon judgement, first.