Apparently "Supreme Court" is Latin for stupid

The Supreme Court just ruled that raping a child does not warrant the death penalty.  Are you serious?  How is that possible?  How do 5 of the 9 officials who are given the highest judicial power in the country and are charged with ensuring that justice prevails think that raping a child isn't a forfeiture of one's life?  And here's the kicker: they said that the death penalty for child rape would not only be excessive, but that it would go against the 8th Amendments (no cruel or unusual punishment).  Justice Anthony Kennedy (or Satan's right hand man), claimed to have been thinking of the nation's "evolving standards of decency" when he cast his vote against capital punishment.  

Here is the USA Today story 

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-06-25-scotus-child-rape_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip