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Criminal

Feb. 25, 2003

No Need to Eliminate Loophole

Forum Column - By Michael T. Shannon - "Danielle's Law," which would expand the definition of kidnapping to include moving the dead bodies of child-homicide victims to make the kidnapper eligible for the death penalty, as discussed in Gloria Allred's article "Eliminating a Murderer's Loophole: 'Danielle's Law' Would Open Up Death Penalty to More Killers of Defenseless Kids." (Forum, Feb. 6), would be a mistake.

        Forum Column
        
        By Michael T. Shannon
        
        "Danielle's Law," which would expand the definition of kidnapping to include moving the dead bodies of child-homicide victims to make the kidnapper eligible for...

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