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Thoughts on the oral arguments in Kennedy v. Louisiana: Sherry Colb at FindLaw posted an article today reporting the the U.S. Supreme Court's oral arguments in Kennedy v. Louisiana. The article takes specific notice of Justice Ginsburg and Chief Justice Roberts' interpretations of Coker v. Georgia, the 1977 case that found the death penalty to be a grossly disproportional penalty for the rape of an adult woman. In her article, Colb suggests the Chief Justice may be in favor of allowing the death penalty where "the line between capital-worthy and non-capital-worthy offenses is so hard to draw" and suggests that Justice Ginsburg would be willing to draw the line at allowing the death penalty for the rape of children, but not for the rape of adult women...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on April 30, 2008 (boomark / email).