{"id":1313,"date":"2003-08-30T14:24:36","date_gmt":"2003-08-30T18:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/08\/30\/eye-for-an-eye-death-for-a-rape\/"},"modified":"2003-08-30T14:24:36","modified_gmt":"2003-08-30T18:24:36","slug":"eye-for-an-eye-death-for-a-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/30\/eye-for-an-eye-death-for-a-rape\/","title":{"rendered":"Eye for an Eye, Death for a Rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a850'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sentencing to death of a Louisiana man this week for  raping an 8-year-old girl has  reopened a debate about whether crimes that do not involve killings may ever be punished by death.<\/p>\n<p> There has not been an execution for rape in the United States since 1964, and no one has been executed for any crime that did not involve a killing since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/08\/31\/national\/31EXEC.html?ex=1377662400&amp;en=02a14c35046e3799&amp;ei=5007&amp;partner=USERLAND\">from the New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sentencing to death of a Louisiana man this week for raping an 8-year-old girl has reopened a debate about whether crimes that do not involve killings may ever be punished by death. There has not been an execution for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/30\/eye-for-an-eye-death-for-a-rape\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}