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Conservatives on the court were against this ruling. chief justice john roberts all but shouting from the pages of his angry dissent that it could not be possibly be cruel and unusual punishment to sentence kids to die in america because we do it to so many of them. if you sentence 2,000 kids to die in america, that's no longer unusual, right? am i right? it's frequent. samuel alito was so angry he read it from the bench out loud at volume. anthony kennedy was the swing justice in this case. these days, anthony kennedy sides with the conservatives on just bearing, but on the issue of sentencin...

Under the age of 16 when they committed the crime for which you want to kill them. that decision was made in 1988. if you were 16, if you had turned 16 when you committed the crime, if you were 16 and one day, after that ruling in 1988, it was still okay to kill you for that crime, but if you were less than 16, that was the line that was drawn there, 1988. 17 years after that in 2005, was when the supreme court said, actually, no, the cut-off now is 18 years old. you cannot kill teenagers in america as punishment for crimes they committed before they were old enough to vote. so that's where we...