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Nancy Mace: “If you are a child rapist, you will get the death penalty.”

Featuring: Nancy Mace, Republican | U.S. House, South Carolina, District 1

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Published | Video Starts at 33:17

Guess who got some of the highest number of amendments in the Defense Authorization act. I did 26amendments on that committee. Now one of those amendments was to amend the ucmj, the Uniform Code of Military Justice. If you are a child rapist, you will get the death penalty. We did that three weeks ago in Congress. So I put my money where my mouth is. We're doing it. And then on energy, we have an energy crisis. (33:17–33:22)

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Asserts that an amendment was made to the Uniform Code of Military Justice to impose the death penalty for child rapists.

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