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Authorization of death penalty for offense of rape of a child under the Uniform Code of Military Justice

Division A · Title V: MILITARY PERSONNEL POLICY · Subtitle E: Military Justice

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The law allows the death penalty as a possible punishment for the crime of raping a child under military law. This change adds the death penalty as an option alongside other punishments for this offense.

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Section Text · Sec. 549.
549. Authorization of death penalty for offense of rape of a child under the Uniform Code of Military Justice Section 920b(a) of title 10, United States Code (article 120b(a) of the Uniform Code of Military Justice), is amended by inserting by death, or such other punishment after shall be punished .