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Should Juvenile Offenders Be Sentenced to Life?

by Sandy Maple, Posted May 7th 2009 1:00PM

The Supreme Court will examine whether children should be sentenced to life in prison. Photo: Craig Jewell, sxc.hu
It used to be that juvenile offenders in the United States could be put to death for their crimes. That practice was outlawed in ...
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Do child rapists deserve the death penalty?

by Trish Robinson, Posted Jan 2nd 2008 9:30AM

In 2003, a Louisiana jury found Patrick Kennedy guilty of raping his 8-year-old stepdaughter and sentenced him to death. The law states in Louisiana that aggravated rape of a child younger than 12 is punishable by "death or life imprisonment ... ...
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Texas plans to execute sexual predators

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Apr 20th 2007 3:57PM

I know the state of Texas is not overly opposed to the death penalty, so this bit of news doesn't exactly surprise me. A bill is making its way through the state senate that would allow for the death penalty for those convicted of raping a child aged ...
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Should we execute foster parents that kill children in their care?

by Jonathon Morgan, Posted Dec 4th 2006 3:34PM

In Ohio, child welfare directors have asked that foster parents who kill children in their care be automatically considered for the death penalty. The push for tougher rules governing the punishment of foster care parents arrives in the wake of ...
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