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Death Penalty for Repeat Sex Offenders?

By Corey Rayburnyung

After the Supreme Court held in Kennedy v. Louisiana that "a death sentence for one who raped but did not kill a child, and who did not intend to assist another in killing the child, is unconstitutional," you may have thought that this debate would be over. Recently however, an Oklahoma lawmaker says he wants to make the death penalty an option for repeat sex offenders.[Rep. Rex Duncan's] legislation would set the penalty for a first-time sex offender at life without parole. Prosecutors would be able to seek the death penalty for a second conviction.A similar bill passed in Oklahoma in 2006, but was shot down by the Supreme Court a year later. Duncan says his bill would be much more specific than that bill and thinks it would be upheld by the Supreme Court...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on August 25, 2009 (boomark / email).