CBS Evening News Online Edition - 2005-03-01

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[0:00] hello I'm Dan Rather and welcome to the

[0:02] CBS Evening News online edition just

[0:05] ahead no death penalty for people under

[0:08] 18 how did the Supreme Court reach their

[0:11] decision we'll have the details also

[0:14] back to Iraq believe it or not an

[0:17] amputee is on his way how did he do it

[0:20] we'll give you the inside story and the

[0:23] battle for civil rights it's hard to

[0:26] believe that it was just 40 years ago

[0:28] we'll give you a look back in a

[0:30] reporter's notebook it's all starting

[0:32] now on the CBS Evening News online

[0:36] edition the United States Supreme Court

[0:39] today put a new restriction on the death

[0:41] penalty a new age restriction the court

[0:44] sharply divided said the death penalty

[0:47] may not be applied to anyone whose crime

[0:49] was committed before age 18 the majority

[0:52] cited maturity differences between

[0:54] juveniles and adults and said there's a

[0:57] national consensus against executing

[0:59] juveniles this ruling strikes down

[1:01] juvenile death penalty laws in the 19

[1:04] states that have them and as cbs's Jim

[1:06] Stewart reports it spares the lives of

[1:09] dozens of

[1:11] killers teenage Washington area sniper

[1:14] Lee Boyd Malvo got the news within hours

[1:16] of the high Court's decision bowing to

[1:18] the inevitable prosecutors in his case

[1:20] said there was no point now in going

[1:22] forward with his death penalty trial

[1:24] Malvo instead will serve a life sentence

[1:27] without parole as will most of the 72

[1:29] men

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