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From: jmhollen	6/26/2006 6:26:37 PM
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"...The Bleeding-heart liberals and criminal-lovers get a swift kick in the arse by the Supremes............. Death Penalty Ruled Not Cruel, Unusual POSTED: 9:27 am CDT June 26, 2006 - UPDATED: 12:52 pm CDT June 26, 2006 WASHINGTON -- New Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito broke a tie Monday to rule that Kansas' death penalty law is constitutional. By a 5-to-4 vote, the justices said the Kansas Supreme Court incorrectly interpreted the Eighth Amendment's protection against cruel and unusual punishment to strike down the state's death penalty statute. The Kansas court said the state's death penalty law improperly forced jurors to impose a capital sentence even if they believed that the prosecution and defense evidence were equal in weight. But the justices disagreed. Writing for the majority, Justice Clarence Thomas disputed the claim by critics that the law created "a general presumption in favor of the death penalty in the state of Kansas." The ruling affirms the court's long-held position that states should determine how juries weigh factors presented by the prosecution and defense in capital cases. Fifteen states filed friend-of-the-court briefs, predicting that a ruling in convicted murderer Michael Lee Marsh's favor would have required states with capital punishment to set up systems for juries to weigh evidence at sentencing. kcci.com .

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