Megan's law violates rights that the constitution grants citizens of the United States. Whether they have been convicted or not, these rights are still theirs, anything that tries to take them away is unconstitutional and therefore illegal.
             The Legal statute commonly referred to as Megan's Law, is the public notification of sexual offenders' identity, location and other information. It was inspired after 7-year-old Megan Kanka was raped and murdered by a repeat sex offender in New Jersey. It requires the Department of Justice to maintain a database of sex offenders, optionally let the states develop their own databases, and require the states to enact public notification laws or lose federal crime-fighting funds.
             Megan's law violates Double Jeopardy, which prevents a criminal from being tried, convicted or PUNISHED for the same offense twice. By having his name publicly published as a sex offender, the offender will continue his life as one of punishment, even after they have fulfilled their sentence. Civil Libertarians and other critics have called the registration requirement a "badge of infamy" that is attached to offenders for the rest of their lives. I know it's difficult to have sympathy with a convicted sex offender, which is why this law is so popular, but that is not what we are debating here. We are not debating whether this law is good bad, unjust, or fair, we are debating its constitutionality, and that constitionality has been violated. Someone who has paid his time for their crimes and been properly rehabilitated does not deserve to be branded for the rest of his life.
             This law encourages private citizens to act as vigilantes. This leads to forms of cruel and unusual punishment, which is illegal. Just for having their name publicly known as a sex offender the following incidents have occurred. In California an ex-offender has his car firebombed. In New Jersey a man ...