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title: 'NEW RESOURCES: DEATH ROW FOR CHILD RAPE?'
description: 'A recent article in the Cornell Law Review argues that state death penalty laws that allow the death penalty for the crime of rape of a child where no…'
canonical: 'https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/new-resources-death-row-for-child-rape'
section: news
date: '2006-12-01T21:04:06-05:00'
updated: '2025-03-14T14:54:15-04:00'
source: 'Death Penalty Information Center'
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A recent article in the Cornell Law Review argues that state death penalty laws that allow the death penalty for the crime of rape of a child where no death occurs may be unconstitutional.

Joanna H. D’Avella, NOTE: DEATH ROW FOR CHILD RAPE? CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT UNDER THE ROPER-ATKINS "EVOLVING STANDARDS OF DECENCY" FRAMEWORK, 92 Cornell Law Review 129 (2006) (available at [http://organizations.lawschool.cornell.edu/clr/92\_1/davella/92-1.pdf](http://organizations.lawschool.cornell.edu/clr/92_1/davella/92-1.pdf)).