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Legal Defense Fund Claims Victory in Supreme Court's Rejection of Attempts to Expand the Death Penalty
June 25, 2008The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) today welcomes the Supreme Court's rejection of attempts to expand the death penalty to crimes other than murder. Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing the majority opinion, said the Constitution bars the imposition of "the death penalty for the rape of a child where the crime did not result...in death of victim." Full release


