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The Sal Lake Tribune reports, "Jessica's Law aims to avenge raped children."State Rep. Carl Wimmer, who sponsored Jessica's Law legislation in Utah, wants to make the worst sex crimes against children punishable by death. The U.S. Supreme Court is considering the issue in the appeal of Patrick Kennedy, 43, on Louisiana's death row for the 2003 rape of his 8-year-old stepdaughter. Kennedy is the only person on death row for a rape that didn't result in murder, and argues it's unconstitutional for him to receive the death penalty. The high court banned capital punishment for rape of adult victims in 1977. Five states - Louisiana, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Georgia - still allow for the death penalty if the rape victim is younger than 12...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 16, 2008 (boomark / email).