"Angry politicians vowed to keep writing laws that condemn child rapists to death, despite a Supreme Court decision saying such punishment is unconstitutional."Anybody in the country who cares about children should be outraged that we have a Supreme Court that would issue a decision like this," said Alabama Attorney General Troy King, a Republican.""The court's 5-4 decision Wednesday derailed the efforts of nearly a dozen states supporting the right to kill those convicted of raping a child — and said execution was confined to attacks that take a life and to other crimes including treason and espionage."http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080626/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_child_rape
"Angry politicians vowed to keep writing laws that condemn child rapists to death, despite a Supreme Court decision saying such punishment is unconstitutional.
"Anybody in the country who cares about children should be outraged that we have a Supreme Court that would issue a decision like this," said Alabama Attorney General Troy King, a Republican."
"The court's 5-4 decision Wednesday derailed the efforts of nearly a dozen states supporting the right to kill those convicted of raping a child — and said execution was confined to attacks that take a life and to other crimes including treason and espionage."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080626/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_child_rape
Honestly, life in prison as a child rapist sounds worse than death. Child rapists aren't exactly given a warm welcome in the prison community.
On the other hand, death penalty for a 18-year old who engages in consensual sex with his 17-year old classmate is hardly appropriate either. Remember, in the US a minor cannot give consent and thus fucking a minor is automatically child rape unless you're under 18 yourself (in which case it's mutual child rape).
Putting more and better equipped police on the street: expensiveHanding out death penalties: priceless (and free)
So if death is out of the picture, What about waterboarding?>>7162Even drug dealers and murders have family.
So if death is out of the picture, What about waterboarding?
>>7162Even drug dealers and murders have family.
>>7169Last I heard the costs of a death penalty trial are somewhere around $2 million
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