Posted on 12/15/2023 3:06:03 PM PST by Morgana
A Florida man could become first to face the death penalty under DeSantis's new law allowing prosecutors to seek capital punishment for sex crimes against children.
Joseph Andrew Giampa, 36, has been hit by charges of sexual battery of a person younger than 12 after he allegedly videoed himself abusing a child.
The office of State Attorney William Gladson filed a notice of intent to seek the death penalty for Giampa, citing the 'severity of the crime and its impact on the community, Tampa Bay reported.
Gladson's office is making use of a law pushed by Florida Governor DeSantis that authorizes the death penalty for child rapists.
Under the legislation, signed in April, a jury can recommend a death sentence for sexual battery on a child under 12 in a vote of at least 8-4.
In April DeSantis said: 'We are authorizing the death penalty for child rapists. My view is you have some of these people that will be serial rapists of six, seven-year-old kids.'
'I think the death penalty is the only appropriate punishment when you have situations like that,' the Presidential candidate told Orlando radio state.
The bill - which went into effect October 1 - passed with bipartisan support and was signed into law by DeSantis.
This is the first time a prosecutor has sought capital punishment in Florida for a charge other than murder in modern times.
'The decision to pursue the highest penalty reflects the gravity of the charges and the State Attorney's Office's dedication to holding criminals accountable for their actions,' the prosecutor's statement read.
Gladson's office cited four aggravating circumstances that they believe qualify death as an appropriate punishment for Giampa's alleged crime.
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If you let them go after 10 or so years, they just do it again and again. Catch them and kill them is the only reasonable thing to do.
If he raped a child and is convicted in a court of law, why not an automatic death penalty?
That is the only question.
Exactly
I hope they hang him in front of the courthouse.
Louisiana uses to have the death penalty for aggravated sexual assault of a minor, but SCOTUS shot it down. I wonder how Florida found away around it.
Yes, please.
Headline campaigns for DeSantis.
That was a very, very flawed ruling under Justice Kennedy. Alito penned the dissent saying to court usurped the legislature by formulating an idiotic “national consensus” theory out of nowhere.
SCOTUS should get the chance to change that ruling.
Thank God for this law. This should be a death penalty offense. Poor kid.
DeSantis for FL. Gov!
I am hesitant to apply the death penalty not because criminals don’t deserve it but because prosecutors are possibly the most dishonest people on the face of the planet and you cannot undo an execution. However, if you video yourself committing the heinous crime… string em’ up.
We need more death penalty for child rape.
They haven't yet. Only after he's convicted and sentenced to death, and the sentence works through the appeals process, will SCOTUS have a say in the matter.
And it's likely they'll throw out the death sentence, if it even gets that far.
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Feelin’ chipper.
That horrible trend of child abusers filming their exploits has been going on so long the old Law and Order SVU and Chicago PD reruns have VHS tapes by the dozens hidden in the criminal’s closet or false wall room.
Now they’re digital, that’s all.
man at it again...
LOLOL... 8^)
I agree. A .45 ACP round to the brainpan will take care of the problem.
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