Lawyer - News

Patrick Kennedy is one of about 3,300 people on death row in the United States. But he differs in at least one respect: Both he and the state of Louisiana agree he didn't kill anyone. Instead, Kennedy is on death row because he was convicted of raping his 8-year-old stepdaughter. Now that the Louisiana Supreme Court has upheld Kennedy's death sentence, he has made a plea to the U.S. Supreme Court to hear his case and find his sentence unconstitutionally cruel and unusual under the Eighth Amendment.

This entry was posted on Monday, December 31st, 2007 at 12:07 pm and is filed under Lawyer - News.