Law Practice
Oct. 2, 2008
Supreme Court Denies Rehearing In Child Rape Case
The U.S. Supreme Court chose Wednesday not to revisit its sharply divided June decision to ban execution as a punishment for child rape despite complaints that the justices had failed to address a potentially important legal point in its analysis.
By Lawrence Hurley
Daily Journal Staff Writer
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court chose Wednesday not to revisit its sharply divided June decision to ban execution as a punishment for child rape despite complaints that the justices had failed to address a potentially important legal point in its analysis.
Aside from a new footnote in the majority opinion, the original decision to strike down a Louisiana child rape statute based on the Eighth Amendment ba...
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