The United States Supreme Court was deciding a case that was going to have direct impact on whether 72 youths currently sitting on death row would continue to wait for their time to face the ultimate punishment or whether their lives would be spared with a ruling that would declare the death penalty for all of those sixteen and seventeen year olds unconstitutional because it is cruel and unusual punishment (Watson, 2005). When the opinion came down from the most powerful nine people in the world (in that realm) it was a five to four split and the death penalty for sixteen and seventeen year old juveniles was now off the table. Over the years various justices of the United States Supreme Court have had various reasons for making a decision as to whether the death penalty is an acceptable form of punishment. One justice however seems to be so personally biased as evidenced by his words that he should be excluding himself from deciding cases involving juveniles and the death penalty. When a Justice decides that he or she wants to write the dissenting opinion, the message that is sometimes heard loud and clear is that there is some personal motivation to do so. When an issue is interesting to some, especially a lawyer, there is a good chance that they are going to want to be able to address the issue with their opinion so that not only their colleagues can see it but so that the United States of America can see it and quite possibly even the entire world may sit up and take notice. I would suggest compiling a counting of the number of dissents written on a certain subject, percentage wise of course not just the straight numbers. If this tally was made, there is a good chance that Justice Scalia would be at the top of the tally for the death penalty dissents when it comes to juvenile offenders. He would be on the top of the grand total tally as well as the per capita or percentage type of tally because these are the cases that he has a personal feeling for. Whenever a judge is known to have a passion for a certain issue that continues to draw him (or her) to the issue then the judge should step back, take a deep breath, and make sure that they are really being candid with themselves about being able to render a decision that is not jaded by inappropriate personal feelings. Justice Scalia and his animosity towards juvenile offenders is troubling. Time and again he take