When the Supreme Court nullified death-penalty statutes for 16- and 17-year-olds in 20 states in its 5-4 Roper v. Simmons decision of March 1, it appealed, among other things, to world opinion and to statutes the United States hasn`t agreed to. Meanwhile in so doing, it ignored the many Americans who think that sometimes, when juveniles commit capital offenses, they deserve death.
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