Despite "the years of long anguish that must be endured by the victim of child rape," Justice Kennedy wrote, "the death penalty should not be expanded to instances where the victim's life was not taken."
「幼児強姦の被害者が耐えなければならない長い苦悶の年月」にもかかわらず「死刑が犠牲者の命が奪われなかった例にまで及んではいけない」と、司法省ケネディは書いた。