Wednesday, June 25, 2008: Today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that imposing the death penalty for child rape violates the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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Tuesday, January 8: Mark La Roi says: “Quick, clean and over is what they would want, right? Guillotine!”
That’s better than choking on gas or feeling electricity or poison running through your body, isn’t it? The guillotine is quick, clean, and painless, yes?
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Last June, I wrote a column for Townhall titled, Death to Child Rapists.
A Louisiana man brutally raped his wife’s eight-year-old daughter. Louisiana allows for consideration of the death penalty in rape cases involving a child under 12. The man was found guilty and sentenced to death. He appealed to Louisiana’s highest court, which upheld the sentence.
He appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Earlier today, the Supreme Court decided to hear the case. Louisiana is one of five states that allows the death penalty in child rape cases. South Carolina, the state of my birth, is another.
You know what decision I’m hoping for. More later…
Update (1/7): States got rid of the gas chamber because some cried, “That’s cruel!” Then more got rid of the electric chair because that, too, was “cruel.” (Although one can choose the chair, the chamber, or the gallows in some states.)
Now, some folks have issues with lethal injection, a modern and humane-if-you-ask-me way to execute murderers and rapers of children. What do they want? To fall peacefully asleep in a candle-lit room while lying on a bed of sweet-smelling roses? If I were running things, the only “choice” the condemned would have is the electric chair.
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