The States of Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio and Virginia are considering administrating Capital Punishment towards those convicted of rape/sexual assault/sexual battery to those who have a living victim.
[AL, KY, MS, OH, VA registrants and supporters, fight this with writing, calls, and showing up]
Looks like several of these same states have a competing bill to fully abolish the death penalty. Let’s hope those win out instead of the ones trying to expend them.
This issue has been litigated since the original 1977 decision saying the death penalty can not be applied to a crime where the victim lived because it violates the 8th Amendment. The public at large should be angry at their legislators and the AGs of said states because this wastes tax payer dollars on a mass scale. These legislators pass a law that has no chance of survival upon legal challenge yet the AGs are forced to defend these laws over however long a period and this costs tax payers untold amounts of money.
This is supposed to be coming of the “Age of Common Sense” except these states seem to be lacking common sense in trying to do this. Here’s some common sense for these clowns; take those tax dollars you are getting ready to waste on appeals and use it to root out corruption in your own legislatures and prosecutor’s offices.