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Supreme Court: Death Penalty for Child-Rape Barred as Cruel and Unusual Punishment

by John E. Dannenberg

A divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 on June 25, 2008 that a Louisiana statute imposing the death penalty for rape of a child, absent murder or an intent to kill, was unconstitutional because it amounted to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth ...

 

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