Patrick Sherman’s a lucky guy. He raped his 8-year-old stepdaughter, and in Louisiana, you can get the death penalty for that.

Or at least you could until a couple days ago. The Supreme Court decided that capital punishment is a punishment disproportionate to this crime. But it was a close 5-4 vote.

I think I agree. It is disproportionate. Maybe justified, but disproportionate. I’m not sure that disproportionate is bad. Relative to that little girl playing with dolls, getting raped was pretty disproportionate treatment,too.

I won’t pretend I know jack squat about the Supreme Court, but I’m pretty sure that if Justice Kennedy and I were to meet at a bar, I’d end up bitch-slapping him. Mainly because he’s a big pussy. To quote him:

the death penalty should not be expanded to instances where the victim’s life was not taken.

This might be my biggest beef with murder trials, no matter if it’s a capital punishment state or not. If a person took all the premeditated steps to try to kill someone; they waited seven days, bought a gun, loaded it with ammunition, arranged for a meeting, then pulled the trigger multiple times firing round after round into the flesh and organs of another human being, just to make sure they were dead, they should not get any sort of break if by some miracle that victim was able to survive the attack. In other words, sucking at murder should not be a mitigating circumstance at trial.

I’ve never done hard time, so this may not mean a thing. But from what I’ve seen on teeeveee, even felons think child rapists are worthless pieces of shit that should be used as punching bags. And for the occasional salad tossing. Come to think of it, if Law& Order is an accurate representation of our prison system, maybe the sentence best fitting Patrick Sherman is not the death penalty, but 20 years in a supermax. And if I were in charge, before he served his first day he’d receive a tattoo on his forehead that says: “I fuck kids. You got any?” Then he’d be turned loose in the yard.

The rest would be history. Sweet, sweet history.