Grassroots death sentences? The social movement for capital child rape laws.

From: Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology | Date: September 22, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Despite the Supreme Court's 1977 ruling in Coker v. Georgia declaring use of the death penalty for rape unconstitutional, there has been a recent explosion of state statutes making the death penalty available for the rape of a child. Numerous articles have tried to discern whether using the death penalty for child rape comports with the Coker holding--often reaching divergent conclusions--but none has focused first on the socio-political setting that brought about these laws to inform their constitutional analysis. This Article attempts to begin contextualizing capital child rape statutes ...

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