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Continued Commentary on Kennedy v. Louisiana

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There is continuing commentary about the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last month in Kennedy v. Louisiana. Today's Sacramento Bee has the OpEd, "Death penalty for child rapists risks fatal injustice." by Ken Rosenfield.The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision last month, struck down a Louisiana law that imposed capital punishment for those convicted of raping a child. At the center of this decision was 43-year-old Patrick Kennedy, an African American man convicted of the brutal rape of his then-8-year-old stepdaughter. During the course of the investigation, the victim gave many varied accounts of her assault, at first blaming two neighborhood youths and only pointing the finger at her stepfather after several interviews by psychologists working with law enforcement...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 21, 2008 (boomark / email).

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