Police Say Dozen People Observed Gang Rape
Members of the Richmond Police Department reported that roughly a dozen people watched a fifteen-year-old girl get beaten and gang raped outside her high school homecoming dance, and did not report it. Two suspects have been arrested as of Monday, though police say that as many as five others attacked the girl over a period [...]
Sentencing in Florida Gang Rape Case
The three people convicted in the gang rape attack on a Florida woman and the beating of her son will be sentenced on Tuesday. Jakaris Taylor, age seventeen, Tommy Poindexter, age twenty, and Nathan Walker, age eighteen, could all face sentences of life in prison at their hearing. The three were convicted in August and [...]
Oregon Man Accused of Setting Up Group Sex Assault
A man in Oregon has been accused of several sex crimes involving two teenagers and a four-year-old girl. Police reported that he used the internet to get people to have group sex with one of the victims. Darrin Vaughn Daily, aged forty-four, faces multiple charges and is being held on a bail of one million [...]
Supreme Court asked to Stop Second Ohio Execution
The attorney for the Ohio inmate whose execution failed last week has asked the Supreme Court to halt the second execution, scheduled for Tuesday. The first execution was halted after two hours, because authorities failed to find a usable vein. The inmate Romell Broom was granted one week’s reprieve, but his lawyer argued that he [...]
Abducted Girl Found After 18 years
In one of the most bizarre child abduction cases in recent history, on June 10, 1991, 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard was waiting at the school bus stop near her home in South Lake Tahoe when a car driven by convicted sex offender Phillip Garrido, with his wife Nancy in the passenger seat, drove by slowly, [...]
Taco Bell Corp. Agrees to Settlement in Sexual Harassment Case
Taco Bell agreed to pay the sum total of $350,000 dollars to two 16-year-old workers after former chain supervisor Terence E. Davis admitted to raping both. Apparently Davis assaulted one victim on her first day of work while the other victim had been attacked earlier. Davis plead guilty and is serving two consecutive eight year [...]
The Death Penalty Is Dead Wrong
Posted by Allen P Wilkinson on September 10, 2009 · Leave a Comment
One hot-button issue of criminal law is the imposition of the death penalty. In 1972, the United States Supreme Court basically banned the death penalty as a violation of the Constitution’s 8th Amendment that prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. Four years later, however, the Supreme Court held that the death penalty is constitutional when applied [...]
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