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

Loaded on Nov. 15, 2008 published in Prison Legal News November, 2008, page 42
Filed under: Discrimination, Sex Offenders (Discrimination), Death Penalty. Location: Louisiana.
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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