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Missouri Can't Wait

By Corey Rayburnyung

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While all of us wait to see if the Supreme Court will uphold the statute in Kennedy, Missouri is chomping at the bit to adopt a capital child rape statute:Emphasizing that the most heinous crimes deserve the harshest penalty, Gov. Matt Blunt said today that child rapists should be eligible for the death penalty under Missouri law. The governor, speaking at an afternoon news conference outside the St. Louis County courthouse, urged the Missouri General Assembly to pass legislation that would add the sentence of death to forcible rape and forcible sodomy cases when the victim is younger than 12 years old. "We're talking about the most horrendous crimes one can imagine and it deserves the harshest penalty possible," Blunt said. "It is the punishment that fits the crime...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on April 21, 2008 (boomark / email).

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