Word: butler
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Getting both Democrats to the table at the Butler Aviation facility in Chicago took the political sophistication of a campaign-trail veteran like columnist Michael Kramer. The result was a summit that chief of correspondents John Stacks believes is unprecedented in the age of television. "I cannot think of a comparable situation where two leading candidates agreed to devote this much time and depth debating each other for print," says Stacks...
Texas District Judge Michael McSpadden has a solution for rapists: castrate them. Steven Allen Butler, an accused rapist, had an offer for Judge McSpadden: Castrate me. Last winter, while he was on probation for molesting a seven-year-old girl, Butler was arrested for the rape of a 13-year-old. In October, after McSpadden aired his views on castration in the Houston Post, Butler's attorney proposed a deal. Instead of undergoing a trial in which he faced a plea-bargained 35-year prison sentence, Butler agreed to be surgically castrated if he could go free at once...
...Butler has a new attorney, and second thoughts. Butler's relatives declared last week that he would prefer to stand trial after all, rather than go through with the surgical procedure. The reversal followed an outcry from legal experts, which drew attention to the implications of allowing prisoners to barter body parts for their freedom...
...medical procedures as a part of criminal penalties. "Physicians have no business acting as agents of the state to punish people," says Dr. George Annas, a professor of health law at Boston University medical school. "This includes sterilization, any surgical procedure or ((implanting)) Norplant." In the Butler case so far, one doctor has already withdrawn his agreement to perform the castration...
Under the sentence, Butler would undergo the procedure and plead guilty to the charges. In return, he would receive 10 years of probation. The irreversible procedure Butler will undergo is the surgical removal of both testicles. When the testicles are removed, the sexual drive is greatly diminished. Butler, who is married, says his wife has agreed to let him undergo the operation...