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At the Supreme Court - Kennedy Issued - UPDATED

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For today, I'll be adding updates to this post. The opinion is here.  The Kennedy v. Louisiana ScotusWiki page is here.  The Jessica's Law index is here.  More on the Court's 1977 ruling in Coker v. Georgia is here, via Oyez. The ruling also invalidates a provision in a Jessica's Law bill passed by the Texas Legislature last year.  That death penalty was the centerpiece of Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst's 2007 legislative program. SCOTUS Blog's Lyle Denniston reports, "Death penalty barred for child rape."Barring the death penalty for any crime that does not take the life of an individual victim, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that it is unconstitutional to impose the death penalty for the crime of raping a child...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 25, 2008 (boomark / email).