“The majority of the U.S. Supreme court in the Louisiana v Kennedy used absurd reasoning to strike down Louisiana’s law. The people in the States have the right and perogative to set their own standards of punishment for crimes. The death penalty for the raping of a child is not cruel nor unreasonable punishment for such a vile crime.” -George Allen

Court bans death penalty for child rape
by Mark Sherman
AP
June 25, 2008

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court declared Wednesday that executions are too severe a punishment for raping children, despite the “years of long anguish” for victims, in a ruling that restricts the death penalty to murder and crimes against the state.

The court’s 5-4 decision struck down a Louisiana law that allows capital punishment for people convicted of raping children under 12. It spares the only people in the U.S. under sentence of death for that crime — two Louisiana men convicted of raping girls 5 and 8.

The ruling also invalidates laws on the books in five other states that allowed executions for child rape that does not result in the death of the victim.

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