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As noted in a post last week, a Colorado state senator has introduced a proposal to make non-homicidal child rape punishable by death.  Fort Collins' KUSA-TV reports, "Lawmaker wants death penalty for child rape."A Colorado lawmaker has introduced a bill that would make the death penalty available for anyone convicted of a violent sexual assault on a child. Sen. Steve Ward (R-Littleton) says prosecutors need the tool to punish those who commit the worst of crimes against children younger than 12. "It puts it into a new class of crimes and actually an important one," said Ward. Ward is proposing capital punishment as an option on the first offense of violent sexual assault on a child under 12, but he says prosecutors may not use it and choose instead to apply it to repeat offenders...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 06, 2008 (boomark / email).