Source: alabamareflector.com 2/5/26
The Alabama Senate gave final approval to a bill Thursday that would allow prosecutors to seek the death penalty for those convicted of sexual assault of a child under the age of 12, setting up a possible court battle over its constitutionality.
HB 41, sponsored by Rep. Matt Simpson, R-Daphne, passed the Senate 33-1 with no changes. It goes to Gov. Kay Ivey.
Sen. April Weaver, R-Hoover, who sponsored the Senate version of the legislation, cited the discovery of a child sex trafficking ring last summer in Bibb County, in her district.
“I believe child sexual abuses like this deserve the death penalty,” Weaver said. “Crimes against our precious children are the worst of the worst offenses and deserve the worst of the worst punishment.”
The bill challenges Kennedy v. Lousisiana, a 2008 U.S. Supreme Court ruling on a case from Louisiana, that declared the death penalty for child sexual assault unconstitutional. Writing for the majority, Justice Anthony Kennedy said that…
Awful. The south needs to be under military occupation after 2028. What awful vile, excuses for people.
Alabama sure likes pissing in the wind regarding some of their laws. Alabamans your lawmakers are European on human rights while you clap like blind puppets.
Again, election year play for votes. They know it was struck down but that won’t stop them from trying anyway and then spending taxpayer money to defend it. This is where PFRs need to flood the guvnah’s office in opposition letter her know the responsibility she has in vetoing the bill to save the money (which is already tight for her people) and the embarrassment of signing something that has been found unconstitutional already. However, she may not care given this is her second and final term as guvnah of AL, so she could lame duck it all the way to the finish line.
Progressivism is dead as disco. Only one vote against this, and it’s just a knee jerk anti-death penalty vote from someone who probably just finds executions déclassé. She might be a bit better than her rhetoric, but she’s basically trotting out the old canard of “well actually, life in prison is a more severe punishment because the guy has to wake up every day experiencing guilt.” So, basically, the DP is bad because it doesn’t torture people enough. Justice Kennedy’s opposition to the DP for child rape cases was just driven by concern that children would be forced to testify.
Zero arguments saying “these men can be rehabilitated.” Psychology (the PTSD industrial complex) has done what fascism couldn’t do—kill progressivism.
Alabama’s governor is so old she might see the devil before she signs a bill into law. Bless her heart.
Lets be real, 99% of these politicians going out of their way for these asinine laws are usually using it as a cover to conceal some sort of secret sexual activity they’re doing. Theres zero other reason for someone to be this obsessed, especially when they have some pretty gruesome crimes that take place in their states that don’t receive the same amount of outrage. Most of those places don’t even put murderers released under a registry, so you know the registry is a joke.
“worst of the worst”
I find it very unoriginal and pathetic when you have to quote lines from movies to sell your hate-driven laws.
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) must be a favorite amoung law enforcement and lawmakers because that’s where they get all their bravado-isk “tough talk” from. “Worst of the worst” and “three hots and cot” both originate from that film.