Supreme Court to Consider Whether Death Penalty Can Be Imposed for Child Rape

Louisiana, one of only five states that has laws on the book permitting the death penalty to be applied not just for murder but also for child rape, is the first state actually to have sentenced anyone to death for anything besides murder in over forty years, and now has a man on death row who was convicted not for murder, but for the rape of his 8-year-old stepdaughter. After Louisiana's