Blunt seeks law to allow execution for child rapists

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Gov. Matt Blunt wants to give Missouri prosecutors the option of asking for the death penalty in cases where children 12 and younger are raped, he said Monday at a news conference in Cape Girardeau.

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