Sentences with phrase «for child rape»

I am voting against the petition for rehearing because the views of the American people on the death penalty for child rape were, to tell the truth, irrelevant to the majority's decision in this case.The majority opinion, after an unpersuasive attempt to show that a consensus against the penalty existed, in the end came down to this:» [T] he Constitution contemplates that in the end our own judgment will be brought to bear on the question of the acceptability of the death penalty under the Eighth Amendment.»

Back in July, my colleague Bob Ambrogi posted about a blogger who picked up on a actual mistake in the Supreme Court's decision in Kennedy v. Louisiana, holding that the Constitution bars the death penalty for child rape.

The question was probably posed to the junior researcher (or librarian) as «How many states have the death penalty for child rape?»

In deciding Kennedy v. Louisiana, holding that the Constitution bars the death penalty for child rape, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's 5 - 4 majority opinion relied heavily on a survey of state and federal law.

Justice Samuel Alito's dissent repeated the conclusion that Congress has enacted no death penalty statute for child rape.

«Genarlow Wilson state habeas appeal update Main LA Times opposes death penalty for child rape for intriguing reason»

The Court's first mistake came in the highly - publicized Kennedy v. Louisiana case, where an astute blogger pointed out that the Court had overlooked a federal statute authorizing the death penalty for child rape.

Not exact matches

I'm hopeful that the global economic contraction that is occurring will put a kibosh on the plans to expand the oilsands, for the sake of our children and grandchildren whose world is being poisoned and raped for a few more years of fossil fuel - based «growth».

Ocampo issued the ICC's first indictments against five leaders of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), including its commander, Joseph Kony, who are responsible for the abduction of more than 20,000 children (and perhaps many more), mutilations, rapes, and the displacement of some two million Ugandans.

«Responsible homosexuals would join Paul in condemning anyone who uses children for sex, just as we would join anyone else in condemning the threatened gang rape in Sodom or the behavior of the sex - crazed priests and priestesses in Rome.

A gay man or woman's love for their partner is nothing like the rape of a child... it's disgusting that you would even insinuate that... you have believed a lie.

I've always been under the impression that the «conservative» view of abortion is that it should NOT be allowed EXCEPT in cases of rape, incest, or when competent medical authorities determine that the health and safety of the mother and / or child is at serious risk (but not justifying the abortion of a child simply for having a mental or physical disability).

Male child soldiers are forced to rape under threat of death as part of their initiation, while in other cases men are rewarded for displays of brutality.

A god who chooses people for eternal literal fire (Romans 9) and causing / allowing evil (rape, torture, child abuse, etc) means he looks more like Molech than the God of love revealed in Jesus.

By his definitition, that means I could ask Jesus into my heart at a church camp, make a concious decision to leave the church, spend my entire life raping and murdering children, get shot down by my drug dealer for stealing, and then appear before God where he tells me: «Well done my good and faithful servant!»

That doesn't really seem fair, but... what about this: If children must die by disease and starvation, that is one thing, but surely it isn't God's will for little children to be brutally tortured, raped, and murdered.

Even Granny can't get mad at me for beheading all those children, and raping the mothers.

For the child of rape who struggles to forgive, the bad news is that she suffered a terrible injustice; the good news is that Jesus did too and he wants to fellowship with her in her suffering.

Bishop Scicluna, currently archbishop of Valletta, is now something of a hero to survivors of sex abuse for having finally understood the dynamic of the clerical abuse scandal and vigorously prosecuted priests who raped and molested children.

«just sayin» How is getting tax bennifits as equal rights for two humans loving eachother, related to raping an unwilling child and puting the childs life in danger?

Francis said the Catholic Church knew well the «grave error» of trying to conceal the problem of sexual abuse, a reference to the church's long history of having priests who rape and molest children and bishops who cover up for them.

We understand it for what it truly is... a book that condones mass murder; rape; incest; child abuse; oppression of women; oppression of LGBT... your imaginary friend is not anything worthy of respect and it doesn't pertain to those who are capable of thinking for themselves and doing well without it.

I have read some accounts where the children were cleaned up and given first aid by the nuns after being raped, so some of them knew exactly what was going on and were forced to remain silent for various reasons.

Nor is it true to say of some great loss or horror - say the rape of a child - «we have to accept the will of God», except in the same sense and with the same solidarity as Christ accepted the bitter chalice sin had brewed for him.

The god of the bible is the least likely to exist due to how wretched it is - it allows for slavery; rape; oppression of women / LGBT; child abuse; murder... not such a loving god you believe in!!

When the crime of rape and child molestation is commited — what should be the penalty for this crime?

My cousin was.repeatedly raped by the father of the children (also fellow church member» for whom she was babysitting, and ultimately impregnated, when she was 12.

In today's society also they are terrorized as rape victims, toys or dolls in media, lambs to follow men, brides to be burnt alive for dowry and baby - producing machines, who work with wombs, breasts, and hands in rearing children.

When a person's belief drives them to take a man's children away from him for no reason other than who he loves, or drives them to rape a lesbian woman to make her straight, when a person's faith tells them it is good and right to kill another person because of their faith or lack thereof... these are harmful.

Perhaps if the dictator of your theocracy would step up and do something to stop your priests from raping children the folks at the Empire State Building would be more inclined to honor one of the few truly decent persons to march upon the world stage in your name of late, or ever for that matter.

The implications of this position are troubling, for they leave us with a God who wills and orchestrates sinful behavior, a God who presides over every rape of a child, every battery or enslavement, every murder, every abortion, every abuse, every abandonment.

All this devout holy man did was say that grown men can't be blamed for raping a child when that child offers them the hugs and affection — hugs and affection they can't give to their absentee father.

Furthermore, studies report that the vast majority of them have been sexually molested as children, and so they figure that if they are getting raped anyway, why not get paid for it?

Sometimes I think I'd rather believe in a God that doesn't «answer» prayers than a God that gives me what I want for me and mine and lets children be raped or forced into drug habits and used as weapons of war.

I was also beaten by random girls for no reason, put into a dumpster, tied up in an abandoned rv by some sick teens who thought that was funny, almost raped by a man while walking down the street at the age of 17 but because I screamed he only made me jack him off (at knife point), almost raped at a friend of a friend's house when we just dropped in for a minute, was impovershed growing up, even to the point where we didn't have power in the middle of winter, had to sleep all in the same bed to stay warm and used our pantry as a refrigerator, lived (and I mean LIVED) with roaches for years no matter where we moved to, was a child during the time when we had our own civil rights movement here and went through a few horrible experiences at the time.

Judging from the number of parents supporting and taking interest in this case and speaking out about rape and rape culture and the victimization of women and children, I would assume the majority of the world understands the purpose of Operation Roll Red Roll, which I believe is justice for the Jane Doe victim.

Now I have my own children and like any other parent, I hope and pray they will never have to live through the experience of physical abuse, but I also hope that if they ever do, I'll have provided them the right kind of tools and language for them to feel confident in stepping forward and standing up against rape culture.

Yet, what's even more complex is the suggestion that rape survivors should abstain from vilifying their attacker — for the sake of the child:

Women who become pregnant as a result of rape and / or incest will often abort or put their children up for adoption.

India has been in the news for reports of gang rapes and hangings, as well as child marriages and trafficking.

This is not to mention widespread rape and sexual abuse of women and children, or the abduction of children for use as ISIS fighters or informers.

One need only turn on the television to watch Machine Gun Preacher for a similar portrayal of a white character who travels to «Africa» to «save the children» against the backdrop of black - on - black slaughter, rape and torture which is never historically contextualised (see The Guardian's Catherine Shoard's critique of the white criminal - turned - saviour character of Sam in Machine Gun Preacher as «half saint, half psychopath»).

Exceptions exist for children born in multiple births, adopted children, non-parental care arrangements and what the Government call «non-consensual conception», more commonly referred to as the rape exception.

This includes murder due to wrongful sexual acts such as rape, aggravated sexual abuse, or incest as well as killing due to depraved indifference by someone who is legally responsible for the child.

The 2006 law also extended the statute of limitations for victims to sue only their abuser for the worst child sexual offenses, like rape.

The CMC resolved a total of 5,725 cases for residents, while OPD addressed 1,290 cases ranging from rape, child abuse and other domestic violence cases.

• He criticised Lib Dems in Weymouth for not telling the party's HQ about a councillor accused of the rape of a child.

«If government does not exempt child victims of rape or defilement from the compulsory payment of N5000 for obtaining medical reports from hospitals as evidence for prosecution, perpetrators of these evil and criminal acts would continue to escape justice and such acts would continue to increase in our society,» she said.

It would allow people who rape or seriously harm women to be prosecuted in this country if charges are not brought abroad — something currently only possible for murder and child abuse.

Women from conservative cultures, for instance, are highly unlikely to mention the rape during a first interview, especially because they are often conducted with a man and while the asylum seekers has her children with her.