Patrick Kennedy v. Louisiana Resource Page
This page is meant to provide a relatively comprehensive set of links to online resources about the Patrick Kennedy v. Louisiana case. It will include links to all of my posts about the case from the Sex Crimes Blog as well as links to other sites around the web. If you see I am missing something, please email me and I'll update this page as soon as possible. Here are some of the key posts and links about the case so far:
Merits Briefs
Petitioner's (added February 14, 2008)
Respondent's (added March 13, 2008)
Petitioner's Reply (added April 9, 2008)
Amicus Brief from LACDL (added February 22, 2008)
Amicus Brief from ACLU (added February 22, 2008)
Amicus Brief from British Scholars (added February 25, 2008)
Amicus Brief from NACDL (added February 25, 2008)
Amicus Brief from Social Work and Sexual Violence Organizations (added February 25, 2008)
Amicus Brief from Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt, and Members of the Missouri General Assembly (added March 25, 2008)
Amicus Brief from TX, AL, CO, ID, MS, MO, OK, SC, and WA (added March 25, 2008)
Briefs Pre-Cert Grant (links all from SCOTUSBlog)
Prior Court Opinions
Louisiana Supreme Court Opinion
Louisiana 5th Circuit Court of Appeal Opinion (added February 1, 2008)
SCOTUS Wiki
Death Penalty Information Center
SCOTUSBlog
Analysis: Limit may be imposed on death penalty for child rape (added April 17, 2008)
Court to rule on death penalty for child rape
State defends death penalty for child rape (added February 1, 2008)
Sentencing Law & Policy
Focused analysis of distraction of Kennedy case (added April 17, 2008)
The latest views of the Kennedy capital child rape case (added April 17, 2008)
A quick round-up before Kennedy capital child rape argument (added April 16, 2008)
SCOTUS Kennedy capital child rape case buzz starting (added April 9, 2008)
Effective reflections on Baze and Kennedy (added April 4, 2008)
Show me support for capital child rape laws (added March 27, 2008)
Is the editorial board of the Denver Post omniscient or just obtuse? (added March 27, 2008)
Looking at capital child rape's constitutionality through the Atkins/Roper lens (added March 27, 2008)
Merits brief of defendant in Kennedy, the SCOTUS capital child rape case (added February 14, 2008)
Debating the policy arguments around capital child rape (added February 1, 2008)
Resource page on Kennedy and the opaqueness of child rape statistics (added February 1, 2008)
Do Baze and Kennedy and big SCOTUS cases depend on just one Justice?
Media coverage of cert grant in Kennedy case
SCOTUS Orders
Louisiana and amici file SCOTUS briefs in capital child rape case (added February 1, 2008)
A better poster child for the death penalty for child rape (added February 1, 2008)
Could there be symbolic and practical value in making repeat child rape a capital offense? (added February 1, 2008)
Volokh Conspiracy
Kennedy v. Louisiana (added April 16, 2008)
Kennedy v. Louisiana (added April 4, 2008)
Supreme Court Agrees to Consider Constitutionality of Death Penalty for Child Rape
Justice Ginsburg and the Death Penalty for Rape
Reader Poll on Allowing the Death Penalty To Punish the Rape of A Child
Reader Opinion on State Laws Permitting the Death Penalty for Rape of a Child
CrimProf Blog
Question from the Past: Death for Rape? (added April 4, 2008)
Role Reversal in Kennedy v. Louisiana: Or What's Sauce for the Goose . . . . (added March 27, 2008)
Missouri Governor Writes a Brief Supporting the Death Penalty for Child Rapists (added March 27, 2008)
StandDown Texas Project
Denniston & Lithwick on Kennedy (added April 15, 2008)
The Death Penalty - Unwise for Child Rape (added February 1, 2008)
Jordan Smith on Kennedy v. Louisiana
Supreme Court Grants Cert in Kennedy v. Louisiana
Death to Child Rapists? (added February 1, 2008)
Opinio Juris
Constitutional Comparativism and the Death Penalty for Child Rape
Criminal Defense Blog
Louisiana Supreme Court Upholds Death Penalty for Defendant Convicted of Child Rape (added February 1, 2008)
Underdog Blog
Supreme Court likely to review capital punishment for rape of child (added February 1, 2008)
Concurring Opinions
Kennedy v. Louisiana Argued Tomorrow (added April 16, 2008)
TalkLeft
Supreme Court Hears Case on Death as Penalty for Child Rape (added April 16, 2008)
Amnesty International USA Death Penalty Blog
Test case on the death penalty out of New Orleans, Louisiana (added February 1, 2008)
University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog
Executing child-rapists - a shorter post than this one by Rick Garnett is available at Mirror of Justice. (added February 1, 2008)
Althouse
"We have the abiding conviction that the death penalty..." (added April 14, 2008)
The death penalty for the rape of a child: "Short of a first-degree murderer, we can think of no other non-homicide crime more deserving." (added February 1, 2008)
Bench Conference (from the Washington Post)
Court to Hear Child-Rape Death-Penalty Challenge (added February 1, 2008)
Lethal Injection
Death Penalty for Rape Would "Compound the Error" (added February 1, 2008)
BLT - Blog of Legal Times
Child Rape: Punishable by Death? (added February 1, 2008)
Notre Dame Against State Killing
Supreme Court to Examine Child Rape and the Death Penalty (added February 1, 2008)
Bournemouth Innocence Project
Wrongful convictions a factor in death penalty case before U.S. Supreme Court (added February 1, 2008)
ChildLaw
Child Rape = Death (added February 1, 2008)
Mirror of Justice
Certiorari Grant on Death Penalty and Child Rape (added February 1, 2008)
Stubborn Facts
Cert granted in death penalty for child rape case (added February 1, 2008)
Kennedy v. Louisiana, II (added February 1, 2008)
Kennedy v. Louisiana? (added February 1, 2008)
Louisiana v. Kennedy (added February 1, 2008)
Capital Defense Weekly
Kennedy v. Louisiana, Capital Defense Weekly (added April 16, 2008)
Quick look at the week in SCOTUS news (added April 14, 2008)
INCase
More on Kennedy v. Louisiana (added April 15, 2008)
Sex Crimes Blog
Kennedy - The Day After Posts
SCOTUSBlog's Summary of Kennedy Argument (added April 16, 2008)
The Petitioner's Rebuttal (added April 16, 2008)
Texas's Argument (added April 16, 2008)
Louisiana's Argument (added April 16, 2008)
A Summary of the Petitioner's Argument (added April 16, 2008)
Markel, Retribution, and Kennedy (added April 16, 2008)
How Does Baze Affect Kennedy? (added April 16, 2008)
One of These Statutes Is Not Like the Others (added April 16, 2008)
Mid-Morning Kennedy Links (added April 16, 2008)
Filler on Kennedy (added April 16, 2008)
Morning Kennedy Links (added April 16, 2008)
The Other Argument in Kennedy (added April 15, 2008)
CNN on Kennedy (added April 15, 2008)
Your Morning Kennedy Links (added April 15, 2008)
My Article on the Kennedy Case (added April 15, 2008)
Kennedy v. Louisiana Week Has Begun (added April 15, 2008)
Coverage of Kennedy Case Ramping Up (added April 9, 2008)
More Kennedy Posts (added April 4, 2008)
A Bunch of New Kennedy Posts (added April 4, 2008)
Kennedy v. Louisiana Respondent's Merits Brief (added April 4, 2008)
Is There a Trend? (added April 4, 2008)
Three New Amicus Briefs in Kennedy (added February 25, 2008)
Amicus Briefs for Petitioner in Kennedy (added February 22, 2008)
An Originalist Argument in Favor of the Petitioner in Kennedy v. Louisiana (added February 22, 2008)
Kennedy v. Louisiana Petitioner's Merits Brief (added February 14, 2008)
Kennedy v. Louisiana has Argument Date Set (added February 1, 2008)
The Class of Death Eligible Defendants Under Kennedy Statute (added February 1, 2008)
Kennedy Case Roundup
Comparative Constitutionalism and the Kennedy Case
SCOTUS to Hear Kennedy Case
Patrick Kennedy has got Company
SCOTUS Blog on Kennedy
A Better Candidate for Death
Berman on Patrick Kennedy
Death Penalty for Child Rape May Make it to the Supreme Court
The LA Times on Capital Punishment for Child Rape
Two Views on Death Penalty for Child Rape
Louisiana v. Kennedy Roundup
Louisiana v. Kennedy
Texas, Louisiana, and Death
The Death Penalty for Child Rape Revisited
The Death Penalty for Child Rape in Louisiana
Death Penalty for Child Molesters
Media Links
Supreme Court debates execution in child rape case, Times-Picayune (added April 17, 2008)
Supreme Court ponders death for rapists of children, McClatchy Newspapers (added April 17, 2008)
Justices skeptical of challenge to La. child rape law, Times-Picayune (added April 17, 2008)
Louisiana’s capital rape statute headed for trouble?, Capital Defense Weekly (added April 17, 2008)
Should child rapists be executed? High court to rule, McClatchy Newspapers (added April 16, 2008)
No death penalty for rapists, Los Angeles Times (added April 16, 2008)
Court meeting to weigh death penalty for child rapists, Associated Press (added April 16, 2008)
U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Arguments in Patrick Kennedy Child Rape Case, The Criminal Report Daily (added April 16, 2008)
The Limits of the Death Penalty, New York Times (added April 16, 2008)
A Crime and Its Punishment, Washington Post (added April 16, 2008)
Should child rapists face death penalty?, Christian Science Monitor (added April 16, 2008)
Rape a child, pay with your life, Louisiana argues, CNN.com (added April 15, 2008)
Child-Rape Case at Top Court May Let States Execute Non-Killers, Bloomberg (added April 15, 2008)
Death Penalty for Child Rape Is Fought, Associated Press (added April 15, 2008)
Death Penalty for Child Rape?, ABC News (added April 15, 2008)
Trend It, Don't End It, Dahlia Lithwick, Slate (added April 15, 2008)
Denniston & Lithwick on Kennedy, StandDown Texas Project (added April 15, 2008)
More on Kennedy v. Louisiana, INCase (added April 15, 2008)
Unusual alliance over death penalty case, Corey Rayburn Yung, Chicago Daily Law Bulletin (added April 15, 2008)
Death Penalty for Child Rape?, ABC News (added April 15, 2008)
Trend It, Don't End It, Dahlia Lithwick, Slate (added April 15, 2008)
Is death fitting for rape of child?, Chicago Tribune (added April 14, 2008)
An Evolving View of Capital Punishment, Washington Post (added April 14, 2008)
Child Rape Tests Limits Of Death Penalty, Washington Post (added April 14, 2008)
Justices to rule if child rape can merit execution, Houston Chronicle (added April 14, 2008)
Court to consider death penalty for child rape, Reuters (added April 14, 2008)
High court considers death penalty in child rape, USA Today (added April 9, 2008)
Death for Rape, an Echo of the Past, David Savage, ABA Journal (added April 4, 2008)
The Supreme Penalty, Weekly Standard (April 4, 2008)
More about Politics than Child Protection: The Death Penalty for Sex Crimes Against Children, Amnesty International (added March 27, 2008)
Unwise for child rape, Vivian Berger, National Law Journal (added February 1, 2008)
Court Mulls Death Penalty for Child Rape, Associated Press (added February 1, 2008)
Justices to Decide if Rape of a Child Merits Death, Linda Greenhouse, New York Times (added February 1, 2008)
High court to hear child rapist's appeal, Boston Globe (added February 1, 2008)
Child-rape executions to test U.S. high court, San Francisco Chronicle (added February 1, 2008)
Court Takes Death-Penalty Case Involving Rape of Young Girl, Wall Street Journal (added February 1, 2008)
A Cruel and Unusual Punishment, The Nation (added February 4, 2008)
Scholarly Articles
Issa Kohler-Hausmann, Ordinal Proportionality in Punishment: A Case against Capital Punishment for Child Rape Under the Eighth Amendment, Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1084871 (added February 1, 2008)
Corey Rayburn [Yung], Better Dead than R(ap)ed?: The Patriarchal Rhetoric Driving Capital Rape Statutes, 78 St. John's Law Review 1119 (2004) (added February 1, 2008)
Meryl P. Diamond, Assessing the Constitutionality of Capital Child Rape Statues, 73 St. John's L. Rev. 1159 (1999) (added March 27, 2008)
Last Updated 4/17/2008
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