Saturday, June 10, 2006

Death Penalty on the rise for sex crimes

Adam Liptak writes in today's
New York Times
"Oklahoma became the fifth state to allow the death penalty for sex crimes against children yesterday, a day after South Carolina enacted a similar law. The constitutionality of the new laws is unclear."

The other states with such laws are Florida, Louisiana and Montana.

There has not been an execution for rape in the United States since 1964, and no one has been executed for any crime that did not involve a killing since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.

This is so disturbing to me I'm rendered speechless.

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