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State of Play: No Death Penalty for Child Rapists

Jul 31, 2020
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State of Play: No Death Penalty for Child Rapists
The U.S. Supreme Court this morning barred the death penalty for someone convicted of raping a child. In a 5-4 decision striking down a Louisiana law, the high court ruled that the death penalty is not a "proportional punishment for the rape of a child." Major media outlets put the story up immediately, most of them using copy from the Associated Press.
Interestingly, there’s a wide variance in the headline language, and not all took the AP’s recommendation: "Court Rejects Death Penalty for Raping Children."
High Court Spares Lives Of Child Rapists(CBS)
No Death for Child Rapists(St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Court Bars Death for Child Rapists(The Wall Street Journal)
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