17 March 2025 :
March 13, 2025 - Idaho. HB 380
The House Judiciary, Rules and Administration Committee on Thursday advanced House Bill 380 to the House floor.
Under House Bill 380 headed to the Idaho House, adults who sexually abuse children age 12 and younger could be sentenced to death.
The bill, sponsored by Rep. Bruce Skaug, R, would allow the death penalty in a new criminal charge the bill creates: aggravated lewd conduct with children age 12 and younger.
The U.S. Supreme Court in 2008 blocked death penalties for child rape in Kennedy v. Louisiana. Florida passed a child rape death penalty law 2 years ago.
Skaug’s bill would also add mandatory minimum prison sentences for cases of aggravated lewd conduct with minors — which would only apply to children age 16 and below — that don’t meet the bill’s proposed criteria for death penalty eligibility.
