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From: tgd@clyde.UUCP (Thomas G. Dennehy)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Castration for Rape??
Message-ID: <295@clyde.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Jan-84 09:16:02 EST
Article-I.D.: clyde.295
Posted: Wed Jan 18 09:16:02 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 19-Jan-84 04:45:20 EST
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Whippany NJ
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Castration as punishment for rape??  Have we all gone  mad??
Perhaps  we  could  roll civilization bask to those carefree
days when a samurai could lop  off  your  head  for  looking
cross-eyed at him.

Those who watched the local news in NYC this morning learned
that  a  man  convicted  of  murder  based  on solely on the
testimony of his wife was released yesterday  after  serving
one year in prison.  Mrs. Wonderful finally admitted she had
been lying and that she had committed the crime in question.

Suppose the crime had been rape and the  poor  blighter  had
been  castrated.   What  are  we supposed to say to him now?
"Oops...sorry, man...duuhhh".  Or worse.  Suppose  New  York
State executed him.

Our prisons may not be the best system  of  punishment  (all
Jack  Henry  Abbott  needed  was  a chance...) but it is far
better than the finality of mutilation and death.
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Tom Dennehy	AT&T BL Whippany, NJ	...{whuxb|clyde}!tgd