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A Round-Up of Kennedy v. Louisiana Items

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"Jindal urging death penalty for child rapists," is the title of a Sunday article in the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Gov. Bobby Jindal said Saturday his administration is working with prosecutors on a bill that would reinstate the death penalty for rape in limited cases, especially for "monsters" who prey on young children. "If there is any crime (other than murder) that merits the death penalty, it is rape," Jindal told applauding delegates to the 71st annual meeting of the Louisiana Municipal Association, a statewide organization of mayors. After his speech, Jindal told reporters that besides asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider its 5-4 June ruling throwing out the death penalty law in a Jefferson Parish child rape case, his staff is researching ways to craft a new law that would meet constitutional muster...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 11, 2008 (boomark / email).