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OK, let me get this straight, a teenage girl does have capacity to make the decision to have an abortion (no parental consent needed, even as young as 13 in some states) , but a 16 or 17 year-old doesn't have the ability to understand that pre-meditated murder is wrong?

In concluding that the death penalty for minors is cruel and unusual punishment, the court cited a "national consensus" against the practice, along with medical and social-science evidence that teenagers are too immature to be held accountable for their crimes to the same extent as adults.

OK, so I disagree and don't like the decision, next topic. The courts continue to legislate from the bench, why are they supporting their decision based upon public opinion and laws in other countries?

For the Supreme Court itself, perhaps the most significant effect of yesterday's decision is to reaffirm the role of international law in constitutional interpretation. The European Union, human right lawyers from the United Kingdom and a group of Nobel Peace laureates had urged the court in friend-of-the-court briefs to strike down the juvenile death penalty.

Somewhere I think there is a founder or two rolling in their grave after reading what Justice Kennedy wrote.