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Missouri pols all calling for child rape to be a capital offense

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this two pieces from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, top political rivals share the belief that child rape should be a death penalty eligible offense: Blunt: Child rapists deserve death Nixon, too, backs death penalty for child rapists Of course, the constitutionality of capital child rape is being contemplated by the Supreme Court right now in the Kennedy case.  And headlines like these might make it just a bit more likely that the Justices will not prevent from expanding the death penalty in this way. Some recent related posts: Hoping (foolishly?) that the Chief uses Kennedy to transform Eighth Amendment jurisprudence Will the FLDS case impact perceptions of child rape and sex offenders? The latest views of the Kennedy capital child rape case Focused analysis of distraction of Kennedy casecontinue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 21, 2008 (boomark / email).