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Louisiana child rapist officially comes off state's death row

By Douglas A. Berman

Patrick Kennedy is surely the most famous child rapist sentencing to death, since his case went all the way the the Supreme Court and led to the Kennedy ruling that the Eighth Amendment precluded all capital child rape sentencing.  But Louisiana had another child rapist sent to its death row, Richard Davis, and this local news article details the lastest development in his case: Richard Davis, a 36-year-old who was on death row for raping a 5-year-old girl, now faces life in prison. Caddo District Judge Scott Crichton resentenced the Ohio native Thursday afternoon. A Caddo jury last year sentenced Davis to die after convicting him of aggravated rape for repeatedly sexually assaulting the child from October 2004 to January 2005.  The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June a child rapist cannot be executed, forcing Crichton to resentence Davis...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 19, 2008 (boomark / email).