[lbo-talk] Obama defends capital punishment for child rape; Nation apologizes for him

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 26 09:49:50 PDT 2008


What is "child rape" defined as here? Sexual contact with a child, or violent sexual abuse?

--- On Thu, 6/26/08, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


>
> I'm not at all surprised by his support of the death
> penalty in
> general. But to advocate death for child rape is an extreme
> position,
> to the right of the SC majority. It aligns him with Scalia
> and
> Thomas, fer chrissakes. He went out of his way to take the
> position.
>
> Doug
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