Criminal law-death penalty and rape


In 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in case of Kennedy v. Louisiana that imposing the death penalty for crime of child rape would make the punishment so disproportionate to the offense that it would violate 8th Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.

Do you agree that the death penalty is disproportionate to the crime of raping a person under the age of 12? Give 5 reasons to support your answer.

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