COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson says he’s joining a push to overturn a nearly two-decade-old Supreme Court ruling.

Wilson said in a statement Monday that the high court “got it wrong” in its 2008 Kennedy v. Louisiana decision, when it barred states from imposing the death penalty in cases of child rape where the victim did not die. Wilson joined 20 other attorneys general in a letter to the Department of Justice and the White House General Counsel dated Sept. 2.

“For too long, child predators have been shielded from the full weight of justice,” Wilson said in a statement. “Anyone who rapes a child commits one of the most monstrous crimes imaginable, and they should face the most severe punishment the law allows. South Carolina will never side with pre

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