Lindsey Graham: “I am talking about a assault on Shawana Pace, an African American woman who lived in Arkansas. On August 26, 1999, she…”

“I am talking about a assault on Shawana Pace, an African American woman who lived in Arkansas. On August 26, 1999, she was kidnapped by three men, she was pregnant, she was near her due date, she had already named the baby Heaven once she got the ultrasound test back. Her boyfriend, the father, former boyfriend, paid three people $400 to kidnap her and terminate her pregnancy because he did not want to pay child support. They did that. They kidnapped her, they took her away. She is lying on the floor and they are beating her within an inch of her life, and one of them says, 'Your baby is dying tonight.' Strangely enough, she was pleading for her baby's life, not hers. The good news in this story, if there is any, is that the three people plus the boyfriend, two of them are on death row in Arkansas because Arkansas, several weeks before, had passed a law recognizing the unborn child as a separate victim; and under that statute, the prosecutor was able to bring a murder charge, not enhance the punishment on the assault charge.”