Louisiana AG Murrill Backs Death Penalty Push for Child Rapists

Florida leads 15 states in asking Pam Bondi to support executing child rapists

Executions in Florida are carried out at the Florida State Prison near Starke. (Photo by Chris Livingston/Getty Images) Led by Florida, 15 state attorneys general have signed a letter asking U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to support execution of child rapists and to challenge a decades-old ruling preventing the death penalty for pedophiles. The newest signature on Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier’s September letter came Wednesday from Li…

State AGs push Bondi to support death penalty for child rapists

Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee during her confirmation hearing for U.S. attorney general in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on Jan. 15, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Louisiana’s Liz Murrill has joined attorneys general from 13 other states in asking the Trump administration to challenge a 2008 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that placed the d…

Louisiana Attorney General backs coalition to reinstate death penalty for child rapists

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 in child rape cases. In 2008, a Louisiana man, Patrick Kennedy, was charged with aggravated rape of an 8-year-old girl. He was convicted and sentenced to death. The U.S. Supreme Court reversed the sentencing and ruled that the death penalty violated…

Louisiana attorney general backs coalition to reinstate death penalty for child rapists

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 in child rape cases. In 2008, a Louisiana man, Patrick Kennedy, was charged with aggravated rape of an 8-year-old girl. He was convicted and sentenced to death. The U.S. Supreme Court reversed the sentencing and ruled that the death penalty violated…

Louisiana AG Murrill backs death penalty push for child rapists

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill is backing a multi-state effort to restore the death penalty for child rapists, calling on the Supreme Court to overturn its 2008 decision.

Attorney General supports the death penalty for child rapists | Pelican Post - Online Newspaper

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill has joined a coalition of 20 attorneys general supporting efforts to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2008 decision in Kennedy v. Louisiana, which barred states from imposing the death penalty in cases of child rape where the victim did not die. In a letter sent to the Department of Justice and the White House General Counsel’s office, the coalition of attorneys gener…