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…they rarely get sentenced. So the death penalty can carry biases. Another bias of the death penalty is that it can be racist. A disproportionate number of non-whites are sentenced to death. Before the 1970s when the death penalty was still used for rape, no white…

…William Butler Yeats’ poem “Leda and the Swan” depicts the mythological story of Zeus, the king of the Gods, descending to earth in the form of a swan and raping the irresistibly attractive mortal woman, Leda. By portraying this molestation, the persona…

…of proven murders, terrorist situations, and rape deserve the death penalty. Increasing capital punishment promotes the reform of prisons by reducing recidivism, increasing deterrence, and decreasing prison population. 4148 2 Overcrowded prisons…

…certainly distorted the Bible’s many translations. For example: People use the passage about Sodom to condemn homosexuality as a sin because the townsmen wanted to rape two angels visiting Lot. By looking closer, one can see the men were not punished…

…that pornography is commercially advertising the female body being raped, tortured and mutilated. The commission agrees and argues that this type of pornography should be censured to prevent moral corruption. If this does not happen, children trained with pornography…

…Home for Boys, but the home was far worse than any hell they could have imagined. Night after night for a full year they were raped, molested, and beaten by 4 of the guards at this facility. Together they vowed that someday they would get theirs. When…

…. Johnson adopted the name Maya Angelou while dancing on stage at the Purple Onion cabaret, in her early twenties ("Maya" 1). As a child, Angelou suffered from great pain, agony, and despair. At age seven, Angelou's mother's boyfriend raped her, leaving her…

…, and then rapes her. Weeks later, another poker game is being held at the Kowalski apartment. Blanche has suffered a mental breakdown. She has told Stella what Stanley did, but Stella has convinced herself that it can't be true. A doctor and nurse come and take Blanche…

…, women were raped, and the city sacked in what became known as the "Rape of Nanjing." One of the brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred. The Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanjing and within weeks looted and burned…

…Lincoln. Her navigator pilot ejected, he was fast enough, she wasn't. There is much justifiable concern about the high probability that all females captured by the enemy will be sexually violated and raped. Army Major Rhonda Cornum, captured when her…