Talk:Kennedy v. Louisiana

Ronald Wolfe
Can anyone start an article about Ronald Wolfe, who was the last man to be executed in USA for committing rape? (In 1964). Axxn (talk) 18:17, 15 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I found a little info and a picture at a Missouri government site, but thats about it.
 * http://websolutions.learfield.com/deathrow/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=A34607F6-A75C-469D-B2AF537829A57FF2
 * http://websolutions.learfield.com/deathrow/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=C540D517-5392-4372-8C0A2B10BF6F992E
 * smb2a (talk) 22:37, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Copyright Violation
Much of this article borrows from Oyez.org's page on Kennedy v. Louisiana, and may be a possible copyright violation. Someone please consider rewriting the article. Buckaroo54 (talk) 20:24, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Living Constitution
I noticed an interesting item from Justice Kennedy's opinion: that "evolving standards of decency" have ruled capital punishment is unconstitutional for a crime other than murder. This would appear to be a very explicit example of the court's attitude towards the notion of a living constitution. Would it be fair to include that in this article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lockwood Like (talk • contribs) 16:01, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, if a commentator makes that point. I'd be very surprised if someone--on either side of the issue--didn't frame it that way. Mackensen (talk) 16:21, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Full pdf official decision

 * KENNEDY v. LOUISIANA, No. 07–343, June 25, 2008--Florentino floro (talk) 10:04, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Holding
"It is unconstitutional to impose the death penalty for the crime of raping a child, when the victim does not die and death was not intended." is poorly phrased. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.77.4.20 (talk) 22:02, 14 September 2008 (UTC)


 * I don't think that it is poorly phrased. What exactly is your concern?  It is essentially a paraphrase of a quote from the actual decision.  The direct quote is: "the Eighth Amendment bars Louisiana from imposing the death penalty for the rape of a child where the crime did not result, and was not intended to result, in the victim's death".  I don't think that the paraphrase of this direct quote is poorly phrased.  In fact, I think that it paraphrases the original quote rather well.  (Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 05:01, 1 June 2009 (UTC))

"under sentence of death for a non-capital crime"?
I suspect this was intended to mean for a crime other than murder. As it stands, it doesn't make much sense. If the sentence is death, then the crime is capital by definition. 24.5.193.228 (talk) 14:56, 15 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Fixed it. PaulGS (talk) 05:45, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Is the resolution from U.S. Senator for Louisiana David Vitter a significant reaction?
Should the mere introduction of a resolution by Senator David Vitter be included in this article when it does not appear to have been adopted? That was a year and a half ago, so it's probably just lost in the pages of legislative history. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.91.17.138 (talk) 19:45, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

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Aftermath Section - Dubious Tag
The section claims that upon reversal that a sentence of life without parole was a mandatory sentence under the applicable law at the time of the case and cites to a news article claiming such. However, I could find no primary source of applicable law which verifies that as an actual fact versus media bias, etc. I therefore recommend that all references to "mandatory sentence" in the main article be removed unless and until a credible primary source or non-media outlet source can be found to verify this as an actual fact in order to ensure the article is strictly compliant with Wikipedia policies such as WP:NPOV. 72.210.102.55 (talk) 16:31, 8 October 2023 (UTC)