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Christa Pike has only the left to blame for her execution ‘trauma’

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“Capital punishment presents moral questions that philosophers, theologians, and statesmen have grappled with for millennia,” Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in 2015 — so the Constitution’s Framers “handled it the same way they handled many other controversial issues: they left it to the People to decide.”

The late legal titan adduced the Fifth Amendment’s guarantee that no person shall be “deprived of life . . . without due process of law” to offer a proclamation so intuitive that any middle schooler ought to grasp it: “It is impossible to hold unconstitutional that which the Constitution explicitly contemplates.”

Progressive elites, who have no problem with homicide when victims are unborn children or born children of mothers pleading “postpartum psychosis,” no longer hold the death penalty for society’s worst offenders in high regard.

But those of an older and wiser mentality continue to dispense the ultimate punishment for the most hardened and impenitent criminals.

That’s why Tennessee sentenced Pike to death.

At the age of 18, Pike and her boyfriend lured a 19-year-old classmate into the Knoxville woods and beat, slashed and mutilated her.

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