Court rejects death penalty for raping children
news.yahoo.com — The Supreme Court has struck down a Louisiana law that allows the execution of people convicted of a raping a child.
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Supreme Court Rejects Death Penalty for Child Rape
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''The death penalty is not a proportional punishment for the rape of a child,'' Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in his majority opinion. His four liberal colleagues joined him, while the four more conservative justices dissented.
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In a 5-4 vote, the court says the law allowing the death penalty to be imposed in cases of child rape violates the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. "The death penalty is not a proportional punishment for the rape of a child," Justi
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