Louisiana is the only state with the death penalty for a second rape of child under 12?
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More states need it. Oh my gosh too much of it is going on. When I moved out here to Arizona in 1982, a little girl was going to have breakfast with her father and she went out to look for her cat and her father found her in the desert dead. Someone had raped and killed her. \n\nIt is beyond me how anyone can hurt a child and it just infuriates me. There are so many sickos and a lot of them are here on the internet as well.  I nicely asked that these kids do not give their e mails out and I have left messages for girls who are desperately looking for a boy to chat with. \n\nI just keep my fingers crossed that this law spreads. Before putting the suckers to death, they should take an electronic knife and NIP HIM RIGHT IN THE BUD!! \n\nKids cannot even walk to school and feel safe anymore. \nThey deserve to be safe.
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Up until March, 2005, the decision regarding minors sentenced to death  was made by each state.  Generally, the more heinous the crime, the more likely the person would be tried as an adult with the death penalty a possible sentence.  There was, of course, certain mitigating and aggravating factors that also affect this decision. \n\nCurrent federal laws prohibits the death penalty if the person is a juvenile  whether the case is in adult or juvenile court.  As quoted by Justice Anthony Kennedy as he found the punishment was unconstitutionally cruel under the Eighth Amendment.  "When a juvenile commits a heinous crime, the State can exact forfeiture of some of the most basic liberties, but the State cannot extinguish his life and his potential to attain a mature ."understanding of his own humanity."\n\n"The high court in 1989 ruled the execution of 16- and 17-year old killers was allowable."  In 2005 the change affected many.  "The ruling means the death sentences of some 70 death row inmates who were under 18 at the time of their crimes will be invalid. States in the future will not be allowed to seek the death penalty for minors." according to a report on CNN.\n\nThe link below is the ruling and dissenting views on this issue.  Good luck with your paper, hope this gives you a good starting point.
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Only capital crimes are given the death penalty.  ALL capital crimes involve murder to some degree.  So, no, rape in and of itself is not punishable by premediated murder by the state. Oops, I mean, the death penalty.  BTW, there is a website you can visit to see all of death row inmates in Texas.  Tells you their crime and when it occured.
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Louisiana state board of pardons and paroles. Just enter that in a search engine and you should find it. Most states allow you to look up that info free from the PPboard website.
244442
Yes it is.  There are very few countries that don't have a extradiction treaty with the United States.  There are a few, not many.\n\nMexico will not turn over somebody who has committed murder if that person faces the death penalty in the U.S.
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Once a person is judged guilty and proven to be guilty of first degree murder, the punishment is clear. \n\nFor some it is a conundrum if they are Christian, an eye for an eye or thou shall not kill. For me it is simple, after the ENTIRE judicial process is seen through, and death is the penalty, then it should be followed though. There are few mitigating circumstances which would KEEP an innocent person behind bars. Not to say it doesn't happen and it would be wise to err on the side of caution, but, if you add in one very relevant fact, the confession, then the path is clearer. I say clearer because the confession has fault factors as well. In our country, the process of convicting a person or releasing them as innocent is the best judicial service in the world. \n\nWe are human and make mistakes and Goddess forbid it happen, ever, but to allow someone that is clearly eligible for the death penalty to live is a crime against the one murdered and the families they left behind.\n\nI will add a personal note here; I believe child rape should be a death penalty possibility. Especially if kidnapping is involved. I know this sounds harsh but the repeat offender rate for these crimes is so high and the devastation to the child so deep, the offender should NEVER be able to walk the street again.
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i don't know about Texas but if you go to jail they don't charge you in Louisiana. so my suggestion is go to jail and spend a long time there. maybe by the time you get out you will be willing to accept your kid also :-)
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STATES WITH THE DEATH PENALTY\n \nAlabama\nArizona\nArkansas\nCalifornia\nColorado\nConnecticut\nDelaware\nFlorida\nGeorgia\nIdaho\nIndiana\nIllinois\nKansas *\nKentucky\n Louisiana\nMaryland\nMississippi\nMissouri\nMontana\nNebraska\nNevada\nNew Hampshire\nNew Jersey\nNew Mexico\nNew York *\nNorth Carolina\nOhio\nOklahoma\n Oregon\nPennsylvania\nSouth Carolina\nSouth Dakota\nTennessee\nTexas\nUtah\nVirginia\nWashington\nWyoming
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nothing, our system of law says that a person cannot be tried twice for the same case, double jeopardy or autrefois acquit (French for 'previously acquitted'), so even though he confessed he would have to be charged on another offense. He could be jailed for perjury, a serious offense but not on murder charges.
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This varies from state to state.\n\nAs of 2005:  "14 states (Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Tennessee) have enacted buffer zones that prohibit sex offenders from residing within close proximity to a school, park, day care center, or school bus stop. The least restrictive distance requirement is in Illinois (500 ft), but most common are 1,000- to 2,000-ft boundaries. California law does not allow certain sex offenders on parole to live within a quarter mile of an elementary school and prohibits parolees from living within 35 miles of a victim or witness."
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Yes, there are statutes of limitations in Oregon, as well as every state in the union. In Oregon, there is no limit for murder, conpiraacy to commit murder, or any degree of manslaughter. Most felony sexual crimes are limited to 6 years or if the victim is under 18, until the child's 30th birthday or 12 years from the first report of the act to an official, whichever is sooner. Misdemeanor sexual crimes are limited to 4 years or the child's 22nd birthday or 4 years from the first notice. Arson is limited to 6 years. All other felonies are limited to 3 years, misdemeanors to 2, and violations to 6 months.\n\nThere are also several exceptions. If fraud is a material part of the offense, the limit is one year from the discovery of the offense. If the offense is committed in office by a public official, it is limited to 2 years from when the official leaves office. Also, rape is limited to 12 years if the attacker is identified by the basis of DNA evidence. In addition, the time does not run when the defendent is out of state or hides in the state to prevent being caught. In no event is the limit extended more than 3 years by any of these means.
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Judges formally have to give 2 consecutive life sentences because thats the punishment the crimes calls for. Of course it does not mean their bodies sit in jail after they die, it would rot!\nIf it was only 1 person that was murdered, the person could get two life sentences because one would be for the act of homicide while the other might be for a felony the defendant was committing simultaneously with the crime. (I.E. A person commits first degree sexual assault then murders the victim during the same act.)\n\nThe point it, the judge must formally give the defendant his sentencing. But you are right, the symantics and logic of "you will be in prison until you die" serves the same purpose but the first one is much less grusom to the listeners ear.
203716
Statutory rape is called "indecency with a child" in Texas. The statute of limitation limits it to 10 years from the child's 18th birthday.
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Even the US Supreme Court has now exempted under 18-year olds from the death penalty...based largely on pressure from the rest of the world.  "Brain development of adolescents prevents distinctions between action and consequence."
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both allow capital punishment.  until recently both allowed for the execution of people who had committed crimes as a juvenile, i believe.
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just type in like in my case.... "louisiana sex offender registry" should come up!..... what state do you live in?
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Depending on when you check and who you believe,it can be Washington D.C. or New Orleans,Louisiana. Washington,D.C. generally is known as "The Murder Capital"