Posted on
Friday 4 July 2008
The Justice Department has made an extraordinary statement of regret for
its handling of the case of , in which the
Supreme Court last month ruled that the death penalty for non-homicide
child rape was unconstitutional. In a significant omission, no one told
the Court in briefing the case that under a law passed by Congress in
2006, child rape was made eligible for the death penalty under the
Uniform Code of Military Justice. But why is the DOJ taking
responsibility?
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