DeSantis defies Supreme Court with new death penalty law for child rapists.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill allowing for the death penalty for child rapists, setting up a potential Supreme Court challenge. The bill makes sexual battery of a person under 12 a capital crime. DeSantis has sought to project a law-and-order message as he tries to take Florida's policies to a national audience. The bill goes against a 2008 Supreme Court decision preventing states from imposing the death penalty for child rape if the victim does not die.