The White Rose Resistance (WRR), where Zacharia sat on the board until February, is best known for its anti-abortion disinformation, harassment campaigns against providers, and for collecting the country’s worst extremists. The group’s national outreach director AJ Hurley, for example, was charged with felony stalking of an abortion provider in San Francisco in 2022. Per his own bio, Hurley is also connected to the woman who was found with multiple fetuses in her home
There was recently a mother that killed her 3 kids, admitted to it, and was likely going to a mental institute where she would have been able to be released within months. It’s not that uncommon to hear about a college girl that kills her baby shortly after birth as a way to try to escape the reality.
I’m not that informed on the subject but I would be very surprised if death penalty was ever given for a single instance of killing a baby. Death penalty isn’t even legal in many states although that’s a separate controversial issue.
Took one fucking search on duckduckgo: https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/stories/use-of-the-death-penalty-for-killing-a-child-victim
It would have taken you less time than typing that comment.
Pretty much all of these examples included additional crimes such as rape, multiple murders, etc. which was my point
The two that don’t were later overturned.
Did you read the article? Maybe spend more time doing research than writing a comment… Or better yet at least read the comment you are responding to first.
I will soften my position from “ever” because that includes some of the archaic shit the US did in prior centuries. A better articulation is that they have done any recently
Did YOU read the article? These are the laws in these states that specifically state what the aggravating circumstance is.
Table 1. States Authorizing the Death Penalty for Killing a Child State Child-Victim Aggravating Circumstance
Arizona
The defendant was an adult at the time the offense was committed or was tried as an adult and the murdered person was under fifteen years of age or was seventy years of age or older
Arkansas
The capital murder was committed against a person whom the defendant knew or reasonably should have known was especially vulnerable to the attack because the person was 12 years of age or younger
Connecticut (prior to abolition)
Murder of a person under 16 years of age
Delaware (prior to abolition)
The victim was a child 14 years of age or younger, and the murder was committed by an individual who is at least 4 years older than the victim
Florida
The victim of the capital felony was a person less than 12 years of age
Illinois (prior to abolition)
The murdered individual was under 12 years of age and the death resulted from exceptionally brutal or heinous behavior indicative of wanton cruelty
Indiana
The victim of the murder was less than 12 years of age
Louisiana
The victim was under the age of 12 years
Nevada
The murder as committed upon a person less than 14 years of age
New Jersey (prior to abolition)
The victim was less than 14 years old
Ohio
The offender in the commission of the offense, purposefully caused the death of another who was under thirteen years of age at the time of the commission of the offense and the defendant committed the offense with prior calculation and design
Oregon
The victim of the intentional homicide was under the age of 14 years old
Pennsylvania
The victim was a child under 12 years of age
South Carolina
The murder of a child 11 years or younger
South Dakota
The offense was outrageously or wantonly vile, horrible, or inhuman in that it involved torture, depravity of mind, or an aggravated battery to the victim. Any murder is wantonly vile, horrible, and inhuman if the victim is less than thirteen years of age
Tennessee
The murder was committed against a person less than 12 years of age and then defendant was 18 years of age or older
Texas
The person murders an individual under 10 years of age
Virginia (prior to abolition)
Murder victim was under the age of 14 and the defendant was 21 years of age of older
Wyoming
The defendant knew or reasonably should have known the victim was less than 17 years of age