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://​orga​ni​za​tions​.lawschool​.cor​nell​.edu/​c​l​r​/​9​2​_​1​/​d​a​v​e​l​la/92 – 1.pdf).

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