PERU. PRESIDENT WANTS CHILD RAPIST-KILLERS EXECUTED

Peru's president said he wants to change the constitution to allow the execution of people convicted of raping and killing children.
"I believe that these people simply do not have a right to live and that society should defend itself by reinstalling the death penalty," President Alan Garcia told reporters.
Garcia, who took office for the second time in two decades on July 28, said he would propose making the crime punishable by death through a congressional bill or a referendum.
Under Peru's constitution, only wartime treason or terrorism merits capital punishment. Child rapist-killers receive life in prison.
According to police statistics, 526 children age 14 years or younger were raped during the first three months of 2006 in Peru, although most such crimes go unreported.
Garcia had raised the possibility of executing rapists who killed their child victims during his election campaign, drawing protests from human rights groups worried about wrongful prosecutions.
In the country's best-known case of an execution for child murder and rape, a man later thought by some to be mentally disturbed was sent before a firing squad in the late 1950s. Doubts over his guilt later emerged.