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Missouri Governor Files Amicus in Kennedy v. Louisiana

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The Kansas City Star's Prime Buzz blog reports, "Blunt files SCOTUS brief favoring death penalty for child rapists."Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt today filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the death penalty for child rapists. The amici curiae, or ?friends of the court? brief supports the state of Louisiana, which is defending before the court a law authorizing the death penalty for offenders who rape children under the age of 12. Blunt proposed a similar law for Missouri last December and bills have been introduced in both houses to do so, although neither has been heard in committee. Opponents argue such laws only encourage child rapists to kill their victims. The brief references the case of Michael Devlin, the suburban St...continue to full post

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

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