South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson has joined a coalition of 20 attorneys general supporting efforts to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2008 decision in Kennedy v. Louisiana , which barred states from imposing the death penalty in cases of child rape where the victim did not die.

In a letter sent to the Department of Justice and the White House General Counsel’s office, the coalition of attorneys general argues that Kennedy was wrongly decided and that the Constitution allows capital punishment for the most horrific crimes against children.

“The Supreme Court got it wrong in 2008,” said Attorney General Wilson. “For too long, child predators have been shielded from the full weight of justice. Anyone who rapes a child commits one of the most monstrous crimes imaginable,

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