Saturday, January 05, 2008

 

Supreme Court takes on another big death penalty issue

As Doug Berman ably describes, the US Supreme Court has agreed to consider a Louisiana law which allows the death penalty for the rape of a child. While many people assume that the death penalty is strictly limited to the crime of murder, this has never been addressed by the Supreme Court. In fact, some states allow for the death penalty for rape of a minor, and federal law allows for the death penalty for a number of non-murder crimes.

# posted by Mark Osler @ 10:47 PM
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Lots of Supreme Court activity on the d.p. is encouraging . . . they also consider the issue of lethal injection on Monday, right?
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 3:37 PM
 
I hope they continue the trend against it. Please.
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 3:44 PM
 
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