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Mzuri
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 4790
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, May 19, 2007 - 02:01 am: | 
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Yay!!!
Texas Lawmakers OK Death for Child Rape
By JIM VERTUNO
May 18, 7:43 PM EDT
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Texas sex offenders who are twice convicted of raping children under 14 could get the death penalty under a bill state lawmakers approved Friday.
The state House passed Texas' version of "Jessica's Law," a crackdown on sex offenders who prey on children, a day after the Senate approved it.
The bill is named for Jessica Lunsford, a Florida girl who was abducted and killed. More than a dozen states have passed versions of Jessica's Law.
Gov. Rick Perry has said he was open to the idea of the death penalty in child sex cases and that passage of a child sex offender bill is a legislative emergency. Perry spokeswoman Katherine Cesinger said the governor will wait to read the final version of the bill before deciding whether to sign it into law.
"The purpose is to make Texas a safer place for children and a more dangerous place for their predators," said Republican Rep. Debbie Riddle, the bill's House sponsor.
Texas would be the sixth state to add the death penalty for some child rape cases, although legal experts debate whether the punishment would be unconstitutional in cases where the victim did not die. Louisiana has an inmate on death row in a child sex crime, but that case is being appealed.
Democratic Rep. Lon Burnam called child sex crimes horrendous but said the state that executes more inmates than any other should not expand its use of the death penalty.
Victim advocates have warned that adding the death penalty would do more harm than good if it leads perpetrators to kill victims to avoid leaving witness.
The bill also creates a new category of crime - continual sexual abuse of a young child or children, carrying a minimum penalty of 25 years to life in prison.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SEX_OFFENDERS_TEXAS?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US
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Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 4436
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, May 19, 2007 - 10:29 am: |
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This won't even pass the Bush Supreme Court.
I know everybody is going to talk about how these people murder the children psychically and spiritually by their disgusting acts
But they have not taken their lives.
Now let us get to the real reason it will fall.
When some rich kid gets his second conviction and walks it is going to be seen to be fruitless.
Texas. The only state where they want to kill you for a sex crime but let you walk for really killing someone.
Is there someway we can throw them out of the union? |
Sabiana
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Username: Sabiana
Post Number: 109
Registered: 08-2006
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, May 19, 2007 - 02:12 pm: |
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Chris, what are you talking about? |
Tonya
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Tonya
Post Number: 5539
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, May 19, 2007 - 04:51 pm: |
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They execute retarded people but not Child Rapists yet? Oh, my.
I thought Texas was one of those states that executed EVERYBODY.
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Mzuri
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 4796
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, May 19, 2007 - 04:59 pm: |
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Y'all sound like you condone child molesters. What's up? |
Tonya
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Username: Tonya
Post Number: 5541
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, May 19, 2007 - 04:59 pm: |
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Actually, I condone neither. I’m just surprised at Texas law.
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Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 4449
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, May 21, 2007 - 12:46 pm: |
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Chris, what are you talking about?
(What I am talking about is that this law will not stand because rich white child molesters will not be executed. Only poor whites, blacks and Mexicans will be--
Much the same way it goes for murder, but again what will really get it is that you are executing people when they haven't killed anybody
Y'all sound like you condone child molesters. What's up?
(500 years of n***as being executed for stuff like reckless eyeballing and whistling at white women.
If they include being Mzuri in the list of offenses warranting the death penalty I will be for it.
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