Unfortunately the SCOTUS shot it down. If their is no justice in the courts, we will need to take the trash out.
Supreme Court Rejects Death Penalty for Child Rape - June 26, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/26/washington/26scotuscnd.html
WASHINGTON — The death penalty is unconstitutional as a punishment for the rape of a child, a sharply divided Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
The 5-to-4 decision overturned death penalty laws in Louisiana and five other states. The only two men in the country who have been sentenced to death for the crime of child rape, both in Louisiana, will receive new sentences of life without parole.
The court went beyond the question in the case to rule out the death penalty for any individual crime — as opposed to “offenses against the state,” such as treason or espionage — “where the victim’s life was not taken.”
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, writing for the majority, said there was “a distinction between intentional first-degree murder on the one hand and non-homicide crimes against individual persons,” even such “devastating” crimes as the rape of a child, on the other.
One that attempted to take out the trash but needs more range time...
Angry mother escapes charge for shooting child molester in the groin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/639187/posts
Child rapists on death row are protected from the other prisoners.
Now that they are getting life they will be placed in the general prisoner population where child rapists usually die badly. Its a good thing.