(FILES)This US Supreme Court (L) in Washington, DC on June 18, 2008. The US Supreme Court ruled on June 25, 2008 that the death penalty should not apply to a man convicted of raping a child, saying that capital punishment only applies to murderers. "The Eighth Amendment (of the US Constitution) bars Louisiana from imposing the death penalty for the rape of a child where the crime did not result, and was not intended to result, in the victim's death," said the justices in a 5-4 decision. AFP PHOTO/KAREN BLEIER