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Byrd's murder was a heinous crime against a man and his family, but it was also something larger. Lynching is the iconic Old South crime, used to punish slave insurrections. Lynch mobs traditionally hanged their victim from a rope tossed over a tree limb. But dragging deaths were not uncommon, first from horses, later from cars and trucks. Lynching was at once a brutal act of vigilante injustice and a larger statement--a warning to blacks to remain subservient...
...understanding Jasper may lie in these questions: Can capital punishment possibly be civilizing? Might it be sometimes indispensable? Human nature, without a social contract, leads people to pursue and punish murderers in their own way. The social contract restrains man's impulse toward rough justice. The contract states: Our authorities, acting under law for the community, will find the killers, try them and punish them. Implicit is the promise that the punishment will be sufficient to satisfy the need not only for moral satisfaction and justice but also for some measure of emotional satisfaction, a catharsis by--to admit...
...challenge is to demonstrate to the world that the loss of sovereignty by governments to capital markets is a new paradigm that will reward governments with good policies and punish those with bad ones. TIM MCNAMAR, DEPUTY SECRETARY U.S. Treasury Department, 1981-85 New York City...
...Board] system doesn't work. It is flawed. It is archaic and it is not made to deal with cases of sexual assault,"she wrote then in an e-mail message. She says shetook her case to court after the Ad Board failedto adequately punish her attacker...
Many other Universities, including U. Mass.,UMTC, Cornell, Princeton, Yale and Stanford, arewilling to use expulsion to punish students guiltyof the most serious crimes...