I am relieved with this decision. I am not a fan of the Louisiana law. Yes, I think people who rape children don't deserve to live, but I do not want a door open for the death penalty to be able to be applied to any situation where a life, actual breathing life, has not been maliciously taken.
A death sentence is not, nor should not be, about revenge. The death penalty should stand as a clear decision that our society values individual life as the most precious possession an individual has. It should be applied only when one person has deprived another person of their most precious and irreplaceable possession.
The death penalty should only stand for "You took his life, so now you can't have yours".