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Patrick Kennedy, 43, raped an 8 year old girl and now the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled that he may be executed for the rape.  Both sides say the sentence could expand a 1977 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that held the death penalty for rape violated the Eighth Amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment.  The high court said then that its ruling applied only to adult victims.  Louisiana law allows the death penalty for the aggravated rape of someone less than 12 years old.  Kennedy was convicted in 2003 of

The whereabouts of nearly 4,000 sex offenders were swept from public view and off Missouri’s sex offender registry last summer by the State Supreme Court.  Missouri lawmakers are now working to bring them back.  A bipartisan Senate proposal would change a 187 year old caveat in the state constitution and allow authorities to once again register offenders regardless of when they committed their crime.  Laura Ahearn, executive director of Parents for Megan’s Law, applauded Missouri’s effort.  We believe these laws should be retroactive and go back to the beginning of