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By The Associated Press

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Published: Wed, June 25, 2008 - 11:12 am

SUPREME COURT (AP) - The Supreme Court has stuck down a law
allowing the execution of people convicted of a raping a child.
In a 5-4 vote, the court said the Louisiana law allowing the
death penalty to be imposed in such cases violates the
Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
The case involved convicted for the rape of his 8-year-old
stepdaughter.
Justice Anthony Kennedy and his four liberal colleagues wrote
that the death penalty is not a "proportional punishment" for the
rape of a child. The four more conservative justices dissented.
There has not been an execution in the United States for a crime
that did not also involve the death of the victim in 44 years.
The Supreme Court banned executions for rape in 1977 in a case
in which the victim was an adult woman.
Forty-five states ban the death penalty for any kind of rape,
and the other five states allow it for child rapists. But only two
people -- both in Louisiana -- have been condemned to death for a
rape that was not accompanied by a killing.

(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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Biscuit, you should do a refresher course on they’re/there/their, and your posts will seem much more intelligent.

Posted by KxVx on 06/26/08 - 10:47 am • Report Abuse

That poor little girl. Why not?? Where were her RIGHTS!!! I am so SICK of seeing people not having to be punished because of “THERE HUMAN RIGHTS”!!! Who cares about there rights; everyone knows at a certain age what is right & wrong. That is why our country has so many over over crowded prisons.

Posted by seebiscuit on 06/25/08 - 8:06 pm • Report Abuse

I sincerely hope that none of their children are put through molestation or rape. If they had had to deal with not only the physical trauma, but emotional trauma from these vile and violent acts, they would probably let justice be served by the victim and their family. It would save the courts/taxpayers the cost and they would still get the death penalty, only on a less humane level.

They may not have killed someone, but they definitely murdered their spirit, their emotional well being and in the cases of these young children being raped-perhaps their future at having children of their own. I would say they took a life.

Posted by rmseek1234 on 06/25/08 - 11:58 am • Report Abuse

Oh PLEASE. I think the rape of a child under 12 should qualify for the death penalty. He may not have taken her physical life, but he sure as heck robbed her of a “normal” childhood and life.

Posted by KxVx on 06/25/08 - 11:50 am • Report Abuse