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...This imagery legitimated extreme humiliation, violent punishment, lynching and castration. The charge of rape perpetuated the terrorized control and emasculation of enslaved Black men ...They are often homeless because they have to escape the torture of being 'remedied' of lesbianism by rapes that are locally justified (Human Rights Watch, 2004). ...

...history--such as the Japanese internment camps, (210) McCarthyism, (211) and the recent torture of terror suspects (212)--can be traced to arguments that also relied on claims of public safety ...) See Catherine Rylyk, Note, Lest We Regress to the Dark Ages: Holding Voluntary Surgical Castration Cruel and Unusual, Even for Child Molesters, 16 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 1305, 1305 n.5 (2008) ...

... that the crime "was outrageously or wantonly vile, horrible or inhuman in that it involved torture, depravity of mind, or an aggravated battery to the victim," because of its subjectivity. (143) .... (25) See, e.g., James Gill, Editorial, Death for Rapists Gets Green Light, but Not Castration, TIMES-PICAYUNE (New Orleans), Apr. 28, 1995, at B7 (claiming that Louisiana legislators had been ...

..., Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Louisiana, Montana, and Oregon have all passed chemical castration statutes. (167) While these statutes vary, most provide a legislative authorization for ...It is overbroad and akin to torture or barbarism. Brain receptors, like eyes and teeth, have far more "legal uses" than those that are ...

..., African American lynch mobs typically eschewed rituals of violence such as mutilation, castration, and burning that later became associated with spectacle lynchings. Although African American mobs ... instances involving rape and incest, there were reports that the alleged perpetrators were tortured. For example, in Jefferson County, Arkansas, in July 1885, David Scruggs, a 42-year-old farmer, ...

...Kosilek also attempted self-castration.          Kosilek was eventually tried and, in 1992, was convicted of McCaul's murder and ...amend. VIII. In adopting this prohibition, "Americans . . . feared the imposition of torture and other cruel punishments not only by judges acting beyond their lawful authority, but also by ...

... the New York Times told about Frank Smith, "who as an inmate leader at Attica prison was tortured by officers in the aftermath of the prisoner uprising of 1971 and then spent a quarter century ... explains, guards "tortured him for hours with cigarettes, hot shell casings, threats of castration and death, a glass-strewn gauntlet and Russian roulette." . While the uprising was multiracial, ...

... displaced civilians, and the effects of such violent atrocities as the rape of women, the torture of men, and the murder of children. . My conscience would no longer allow me to stand by without ...Men who leave the camps face castration and death. So the families decide that rape is the lesser evil. Nor have the children been spared; ...

...(5) Under judicium Dei, the accused was either subjected to some form of torture, as in trial by ordeal, or to trial by combat. (6) These two forms of "trial" shared the same ...Applications of behavior-altering treatments are already visible in the chemical castration of certain sex offenders and court-ordered administration of anti-psychotic medications. Greely, ...

...The second is a form of fetishistic scopophilia in which the male viewer denies female castration through the substitution of a fetish object or female body part. The slasher film, as Clover points ... the Rocky films, which dwell on revenge as the appropriate response to prior punishment or torture. Patriarchy, according to the slasher film, is not so easily restored. Thus, the final stage of the ...

..., then it would have to support any number of monstrous institutions such as slavery or torture if it could be shown that the aggregate pleasure experienced by the masters or sadists exceeded the ... experience of our essential constituent split is expressed in Lacan's metaphor of "castration." (302) . This metaphor expresses the idea that the subject does not experience himself as being ...

... that the Eighth Amendment was intended to prohibit barbarous punishments such as castration, burning at the stake, and quartering (Whitten v. Georgia, 47 Ga. 297 [1872]). Similarly, the U.S. ...Ed. 2d 346 [1972]). In Virginia, PATRICK HENRY was worried that Congress might legalize torture as a method of coercing confessions from criminal defendants, and that the government should be ...

...The facts of Anzalone did not include torture or aggravated cruelty, and therefore did not warrant an action under the humane Care for Animals ..., though that paragraph contains exemptions for animal injuries and death due to hunting, castration, polling, declawing, and other lawful activities. . The statute speaks not of "pets," but ...

...Hence the truly immense gain in Western Europe of no more murder camps, no more torture chambers. Is this enough? Certainly it is a stupendous improvement to be acknowledged gratefully, ...The men would be lined up in castration stations, the women raped by France's African troops There actually was a crank book in English ...

...'s] ever becoming a non violent member of society, short of a prefrontal lobotomy and castration, and that might not change him sufficiently." Nor can we find where any of his jailers said that ..., and, thus, it is not possible to discern whether they support a finding of "unnecessary torture." See State v. Rhoades, 822 P.2d 960 (Idaho 1991); State v. Fain, 774 P.2d 252 (Idaho 1989) (no ...

... in which prisoners suffered extreme punishments, including whippings and psychological torture. See ABADINSKY, supra note 24, at 207. During this era, as Cavender notes, "American penology was ...PROBS. 301, 305 n.20 (2006) ("[A] voluntary sterilization statute mandating castration as a condition of parole for repeat sex offenders was enacted in California in 1996. Florida, ...

... objects on the table may represent the valued products of this event [childbirth]; if a castration, then these objects represent the genitals of the murdered general. And, it may be argued, the ... and ordered that the summoned woman, in the presence of the witness, be subjected to the torture of the sibille." It is wrong as well to imagine Artemisia giving her testimony or being examined ...

... who completed the state sex offender treatment program and then underwent voluntary castration while in prison was still turned down by at least 120 rehabilitation facilities upon release, and ... results in an automatic level three (high) determination of the sex offender's risk: "(1) Torture or mutilation of the victim or the infliction of death, (2) abduction and forcible transportation ...

... these "cures" were surgical: hysterectomy, (43) ovariectomy, (44) clitoridectomy, (45) castration, (46) vasectomy, (47) pudic nerve surgery, (48) and lobotomy. (49) Other treatments were ... concluded that "[h]uman rights laws cannot be sidestepped by simply couching actions that torture mentally or physically in benevolent terms such as `curing' or `treating' the victims." (198) In so ...

...(12) Another would take the exclusion as referring only to the punishment of castration. (13) . A number of modern scholars whose arguments I cite refer to the Jia Yi passage. However, ... of the Qin unification, is an example of this harshness: he was beaten repeatedly and tortured before being executed by being cut in two at the waist, in the marketplace in the capital, Xianyang ...

...." After hearing about the excessive enjoyment the Captain obtains from horrifying types of torture, the Rat Man turns any of the Captain's requests into tormenting internalized demands. According to .... (10) Neurosis is the mark of castration. . ED CAMERON . University of Texas-Pan American . ...

... the sex offender legislation one step further, passing a law which would allow "chemical castration" upon a second conviction of a sex offense against a victim under age 13. . Sentencing . The trend ... the course of an abduction or robbery; murder of more than one person in three years; and torture or mutilation of a murder victim. Changes also were made which will expedite the carrying out of ...

...(243) Even Lee, however, would prohibit "unreasonable or unacceptable coercion" such as torture, compulsory sterilization, and abortion, but would allow for education, shame, incentives, and ...Druhm, Comment, A Welcome Return to Draconia: California Penal Law 645, the Castration of Sex Offenders and the Constitution, 61 ALB. L. REV. 285, 323 (1997) ("Sterilization of the ...