BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill has joined a coalition of 20 attorneys general supporting a national push to restore the death penalty for child rapists.

The effort seeks to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2008 decision in Kennedy v. Louisiana, which barred states from imposing capital punishment in child rape cases where the victim did not die.

“As I’ve stated many times before, child rapists deserve the death penalty. The United States Supreme Court needs to reverse this egregiously wrong ruling,” Murrill said in a statement.

The letter argues the ruling was wrongly decided and stripped states of a “vital tool” to punish and deter predators.

“This is one of the most egregious crimes that can be committed. It absolutely destroys the life of a child,”

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