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These amendments were passed in the wake of the recommendations of the Verma Committee.113 Pertinently, while the Verma Committee was in favour of enhanced punishment for certain forms of sexual assault and rape, it noted that "in the larger interests of society, and having regard to the ...
This was in one season in Phoenix alone. Their histories show dozens of arrests in Germany for fraudulent schemes, rape, prostitution, theft, burglary, arson. This was all before either of them turned 27. Their bravado in pulling off the scheme to murder Cindy for life insurance was well fo...
“If you’re not willing to follow the law yourself, then you shouldn’t have a right in making the law for everyone else… The common denominator is that we have certain objective minimum qualifications, in terms of responsibility and trustworthiness and commitment to our laws, that we requir...
As part of a right-wing "law and order" campaign, the Sri Lankan government ispushing to reinstate the death penalty, which has not been carried out for morethan 30 years, although it remains formally on the legal books. The push for executions is part of a deepening assault on basic de...
In January, a jury ordered him to pay $83.3 million for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll after she accused him of sexual assault. Earlier this month, Trump secured a $91.6 million bond to guarantee that judgment while he appeals. Trump’s lawyers said freeing up cash by ...
In a recent article in Social History, Patrick Joyce, a leading figure in the postmodernist assault on social history, tells us that "If social history comes to be seen as the outcome of the project of modernity then this may be the signal of its end."(1) O...
Suspect had 1 assault rifle, 3 handguns The shooting suspect, Robert Bowers, was armed with an assault rifle and at least three handguns, Robert Jones of the FBI's Pittsburgh Field Office said Saturday. Jones said it is unclear how Bowers obtained the guns and if ...
Common criminals found themselves condemned to death by federal judges in cases for crimes that neither resulted in the death of their victims, nor carried the death penalty in the regular criminal statutes where they were committed. A presidential pardon remained the only recourse for the condemned...
aggravated sexual assault, arson, obstruction or retaliation, or terroristic threat under Section 22.07(a)(1), (3), (4), (5), or (6); (3) the person commits the murder for remuneration or the promise of remuneration or employs another to commit the murder for remuneration or the promis...