I do not take the death penalty lightly.  The decision to end a criminal?s life is perhaps the most solemn decision that the state can make. This decision is never easy. I mention  this merely to point out that it?s for the people and their elected officials to decide when it is appropriate to extend full criminal punishment. This is not a decision that the constitution leaves to five old people in black dresses. The police power resides solely in the state government. 

It is a fundamental violation of the separation of powers  when five unelected, unaccountable judges use their own sense of morality to invalidate the laws of 19 states

Justice Kennedy's assessment that executing juveniles violates ?evolving standards of decency" has no basis in reality. The only measure of the people?s will on this issue is the fact that society chose to enact legislature permitting  the application of the  death penalty  to juveniles who commit  heinous crimes. It is not the judge?s job to engineer our culture. Their job is to uphold the law?not to invent it through grand moral sweeps.