Capital rape; authorize life imprisonment or death penalty for crime of.

Summary

The bill adds a new crime called capital rape that applies when a person 18 or older has sexual intercourse with a child under 12 and damages the child's sexual organs. Convictions would be punishable by the death penalty or life in prison. The measure failed and died in committee.

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