Following colleagues’ posts, Why Death Penalty Won’t End Sexual Assault: A Social Work Perspective on Kennedy v Louisiana and Supreme Court Rejects Death Penalty for Child Rape, I’ll hazard a slightly different perspective.
As is too often the case, the analysis of the opinion in the media distorts what was actually decided or even what was [...]
The nuances of the Supreme Court decision in Kennedy v Louisiana are perhaps more telling than the strict constitutionality of the ruling. The decision written by Justice Kennedy incorporates input from an amicus brief from the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), the Louisiana chapter of NASW, the National Alliance to End Sexual Violence and [...]
It was reported today that the Supreme Court rejected the use of capital punishment for convicted child rapists as cruel and unusual in violation of the Eighth Amendement in the case Kennedy v. Louisiana. In the 5-4 decision written by Justice Anthony Kennedy and joined by Justices Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg, and Breyer, the Court [...]
It was reported in the Houston Chronicle in the article ACLU Sues State Juvenile Prison System, that the American Civil Liberties Union was suing the Texas Youth Commission due to allegations that the TYC subjected female inmates to mistreatment and abuse.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit against the Texas Youth Commission on [...]
