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Shock rocker Marilyn Manson and the band that bears his--yes, his--name can make even the most avidly sociopathic rap and heavy-metal groups look meek...
...seizes power and leads the world to destruction. The album's 16 songs, including Tourniquet (which is getting steady play on MTV), wallow in nightmarish, frequently X-rated scenarios of occultism, suicide, torture, greed and mindless celebrity worship. "I'm so all-American I'd sell you suicide," Manson snarls over the sound of jackhammering drums and the buzz-saw scream of guitars. Manson, whose real name is Brian Warner, and his group have all adopted names of celebrity idols and serial killers. The keyboardist calls himself Madonna Wayne Gacy; the bassist, Twiggy Ramirez...
This toxic brew fascinates alienated teenage males, who have made Superstar a surprise hit. Since its debut last November, the album has sold more than 1 million copies and climbed as high as No. 3 on the charts, right behind Celine Dion and Kenny G. Rolling Stone magazine put Manson on its cover in January and proclaimed him Best New Artist of 1996. This week Manson makes his screen debut as a seedy porn actor in the David Lynch film Lost Highway...
...outrageous as the charge was (prosecutors say there is no evidence of any parental abuse), it was not a wild, Manson-like outburst. A career criminal who has been in and out of jail since he was a teenager, Davis knows that child molesters are not popular in prison, and he has been eager to deny that he raped Polly before strangling her. But his defiant statement made it "very easy" to pronounce the death sentence, Judge Thomas C. Hastings said. And Marc Klaas vowed to get the ultimate satisfaction. "The last thing Polly saw before she died was Richard...
Further, Ms. Milgrom-Elcott criticizes the registration law's emphasis on the "supposed capacity for danger" rather than "actual danger." First of all, laws of punishment and incarceration have a probabilistic character. For example, while it is not certain that Charles Manson will kill again if released, his past actions give us strong reason to consider the possibility that he might do so, and as a result we keep him locked up for that reason, in addition to retribution and deterrence. Also, the recidivism rates of sexual offenders are very high, and unlike most other criminals, sexual offenders remain active...