Minnesota Governor Tim Walz on Thursday signed a law that repeals the state'...
FILE PHOTO: Democratic candidate for Governor Tim Walz participates in a gun violence prevention roundtable with former Representative Gabby Giffords in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., October 26, 2018. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Walz, a Democrat, signed the bill in St. Paul, saying that the “reprehensible exception should never have been part of our criminal statutes.” A wave a marital rape laws were passed in the 1980s and 90s, making it a crime in all 50 states, but loopholes still existed in several states.
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