Ron DeSantis and Florida Are About to Give the Supreme Court a Direct Challenge on the Death Penalty
The Florida Senate passed and sent to Governor Ron DeSantis a proposed law permitting the death penalty for pervs who rape kids under age 12. Governor DeSantis, who championed the bill, is expected to sign it into law, thereby setting up a challenge to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In the 2008 Supreme Court decision called
Kennedy vs. Louisiana, Patrick O’Neal Kennedy was convicted of raping his eight-year-old stepdaughter in that case. She didn’t die but suffered traumatic physical and, one must presume, psychological injuries. According to Wikipedia:
[The rape] tore the victim’s perineum “from her vaginal opening to her anal opening. [It] tore her vagina on the interior such that it separated partially from her cervix and allowed her rectum to protrude into her vagina. Invasive emergency surgery was required to repair these injuries.”
Ron DeSantis and Florida Are About to Give the Supreme Court a Direct Challenge on the Death Penalty