BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — The Louisiana Attorney General has joined a group of 20 other attorneys general to overturn the United States Supreme Court decision, which bans the death penalty ...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - A coalition of 20 state attorneys general, including Alabama’s Steve Marshall, has come together to support efforts to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2008 Kennedy v.
The Eighth Amendment prohibits the death penalty for the rape of a child; a Louisiana statute authorizing capital punishment for the rape of a child under 12 years of age is unconstitutional. Not ...