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SCOTUS declines to rehear Ban on Execution for Child Rape

By Bill Watkins, Esq.

The state of Louisiana and the Justice Department had asked the court to reconsider the 5 to 4 decision because the justices had not been presented with what the state and federal government considered an important fact: that Congress in 2006 made child rape a capital offense under military law. This would have perhaps undermined the "national consensus" argument in the majority opinion.

The Court, however, declined to reconsider the issue.

The Washington Post has this article.

Full post as published by South Carolina Appellate Law Blog on October 03, 2008 (boomark / email).