Proposals to Execute Pedophiles Makes Headway in US

[One2Snoop]

Proposals to execute pedophiles make headway in US

By Fanny Carrier AFP -
Monday, May 28 09:22 am
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The idea of executing child rapists, even when there in no loss of life, is making headway in the United States.

The Louisiana Supreme Court last week upheld the death sentence for a pedophile, and the governor of Texas is soon to sign into law legislation to that effect.

In 1995, Louisiana was the first state to adopt legislation authorizing the death penalty for child rapists.

Ten years later, the movement to make pedophilia punishable by death really picked up steam after nine-year-old Jessica Lunsford was raped and buried alive in Florida by a man with a prior conviction for sex crimes.

Various versions of the "Jessica Law" sprang up all over in the country, imposing in most cases a minimum 25 year jail sentence and the wearing of an ankle bracelet for life for raping a child aged 12 or younger.

But in some states, elected officials amended their versions of the "Jessica Law" by adding the possibility of condemning a pedophile to death.

They include Louisiana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Georgia and Montana.

An overwhelming majority of lawmakers in Texas chose to join the list. Texas is responsible for a third of all executions carried out in the United States in the past 30 years and for two-thirds of those conducted so far this year.

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more at the link.....

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/2007052...o-10170b4.html

[Allen Walker]

I aggree with these laws to a extent. If they caused extensive damage physicaly and mentaly then sure, but the small-time peeping tom who watchs a 6-year old change shouldn't be put to death per se...know what I mean?

[dallasvic]

Originally Posted by One2Snoop

Proposals to execute pedophiles make headway in US

By Fanny Carrier AFP -
Monday, May 28 09:22 am
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The idea of executing child rapists, even when there in no loss of life, is making headway in the United States.

The Louisiana Supreme Court last week upheld the death sentence for a pedophile, and the governor of Texas is soon to sign into law legislation to that effect.

In 1995, Louisiana was the first state to adopt legislation authorizing the death penalty for child rapists.

Ten years later, the movement to make pedophilia punishable by death really picked up steam after nine-year-old Jessica Lunsford was raped and buried alive in Florida by a man with a prior conviction for sex crimes.

Various versions of the "Jessica Law" sprang up all over in the country, imposing in most cases a minimum 25 year jail sentence and the wearing of an ankle bracelet for life for raping a child aged 12 or younger.

But in some states, elected officials amended their versions of the "Jessica Law" by adding the possibility of condemning a pedophile to death.

They include Louisiana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Georgia and Montana.

An overwhelming majority of lawmakers in Texas chose to join the list. Texas is responsible for a third of all executions carried out in the United States in the past 30 years and for two-thirds of those conducted so far this year.

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more at the link.....

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/2007052...o-10170b4.html

Hi O2S,
I just found this thread and was reading the story , but I can't read the rest because the link does not work HELPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!
Can we find another link some where. I was really enjoying the story then puff it was gone !! LOL