In a stunning display of rationality, the Supreme Court has voted 6-3 to ban the dealth penalty for retarded defendants. I'm going to be a silly idealist here and say hopefully we're on the road to it being challenged all together. Sadly, 38 states disagree and have not yet realized that the U.S. is both the only democratic country in the world with a dealth penalty and the one with the highest rates of crime and imprisionment.