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"Alito also wrote that the majority ruled against the death penalty "no matter how young the child, no matter how many times the child is raped, no matter how many children the perpetrator rapes, no matter how sadistic the crime, no matter how much physical or psychological trauma is inflicted and no matter how heinous the perpetrator's criminal record may be."
It was a close decision, at 5-4.
If Obama gets to appoint a couple of Justices, something like this won't even be close. Will be 7-2.
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