What kind of opinion should I form?

I was quickly glancing at headlines this morning and I saw this:

"Court rejects death penalty for raping children (AP)"

Wow.

What kind of opinion as I supposed of make based off of that title? Raping children is terrible- speaking off-the-cuffs, I think people who rape children (who aren't children themselves) deserve death.

But at the same time, I understand why a death penalty would be considered 'cruel and unusual punishment' by the Supreme Court. In terms of reciprocity, death isn't equal to rape.

It's a classic case of my sense of moral dignity clashing with my logic in forming an opinion.

In introspective confusion,
Greg

PS - By the way, isn't that title kinda ridiculous in it of itself?