WASHINGTON D.C (WCIV) — Rep. Nancy Mace introduced legislation Thursday that would allow the federal government to impose the death penalty on people convicted of raping or sexually assaulting children.
The bill, titled the Death Penalty for Child Rapists Act, is intended to expand capital punishment eligibility to several federal child sex crime statutes and to the rape of a child under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, according to the press release.
“We have zero mercy for child rapists,” Mace said in a statement. “Those who prey on our most vulnerable deserve the harshest consequence we can deliver. No predator should be allowed to walk away from the most unthinkable crimes against children.”
The proposal would amend Title 18 of the U.S. Code to authorize capital punishment for …
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Sigh…needs the political credibility for the votes…
Some helpful perspective for PFRs, et al on the person in question of this bill and others of late. She (Ms. Mace) is going scorched earth like Sherman on the way to the sea.
‘I Don’t Know That I’ll Ever Be OK With Myself’ (Politico 27 Feb 2026)
If Mace cared so much about child sex trafficking and victims how come she and other Republicans didn’t show up for Les Wexner’s Deposition?