Word: rapes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every capital crime except criminal assault die in the electric chair. For rapists the penalty is hanging in the county where the crime was committed. Last year 1,500 sightseers packed Smithland to see William Thomas De Boe become the State's first white man hanged for rape (TIME, April 29, 1935). Last week in Daviess County, which has not had a hanging since a private one in 1905, a Negro outdrew white William De Boe nearly 7-to-1 as a gallows performer...
...RAPE OF AFRICA-Lamar Middleton-Smith & Haas ($3). Brief, graphic study in the European realpolitik ("60 years of duplicity and chicanery") that has partitioned Africa among six land-greedy nations; with the suggestion that the crisis over Ethiopia is only a beginning...
...tendencies; 9) economic reasons in women of high fertility; 10) previous postpartum infection; 11) co existing malignant disease; 12) necessity of travel to remote regions where pregnancy cannot be properly cared for." In addition: "While our own laws and those of other countries do not as a rule recognize rape or extreme youth as indications for abortion, we as physicians, knowing the harmful mental or physical effects produced by a pregnancy in such cases, should seek to justify an abortion for medical reasons. If the abortion is done openly, there is little doubt that the courts would uphold such...
...April 1933, the U. S. S. Akron was lost off the New Jersey coast. Same month, this time in Decatur, Ala., bullet-headed Haywood Patterson, leader of the "Scottsboro Boys," was found guilty of rape by a jury that fixed the death penalty. Scrupulous Judge James E. Horton set aside the verdict as unwarranted by the evidence, thereby signed his own political death warrant (TIME, April...
That technicality made it necessary for de Clifford to be tried by the House of Lords, since under the Magna Charta a peer indicted for treason or a felony which includes homicide, rape, bigamy, burglary, robbery, larceny, counterfeiting and forgery must be tried by his peers. Such a trial costs thousands of dollars and, since the county in which the crime is supposed to have taken place must pay, a tradition exists for piling on every expense that can be thought of. For last week's trial, which cost some $50,000, it was not enough to install...