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 the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishments. They argued that the death penalty was unjust for crimes against individuals where the victim does not die.

Liz Murrill and other attorneys general sent a letter to the Department of Justice arguing that Kennedy v. Louisiana was wrongly decided and that the Constitution allows capital p

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