Word: rapist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Where they're going, on Jessica's suggestion, is death -- live. She pays a visit to the state prison's death row and persuades Dennis Casterline (Tim Daly), a convicted murderer and rapist, to permit live TV to witness his execution; in return, his four-year-old daughter will receive a share of revenues from the event. The network sets up the electric chair in an arena dubbed the Megadome, launches a huge publicity campaign and goes about converting this most grisly of affairs into prime-time entertainment. "The doctor wants to know how close you want to be," someone...
...butcher knife are neither "tired of hearing about victims" nor eager to honor them. They're tired of being victims. And they're eager to see women fight back by whatever means necessary. Probably it all started when Louise -- or was it Thelma? -- dispatched that scumball would-be rapist in the parking lot of a bar. In fact, we can't get enough of warrior-woman flicks: Sigourney Weaver in Alien, Linda Hamilton in Terminator II, Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct. These are ladies who wouldn't slice anything off, one suspected, unless they meant to put it straight into...
...almost forgot the rapist who lives in a mansion with his four wives. Women to him are like baubles, merely another symbol of his wealth...
...silence surrounding this issue typifies a broader silence which has contributed to the perpetuation of a far more violent and pernicious form of oppression. The second thing I learned last week is this: One of my acquaintances, whom I used to describe as a casual friend, is a date rapist. Probably many of us could tell similar stories; I have no proof of it, since I learned of the incident second-hand and I do not know the victim's name...
...jury in Austin, Texas, convicted rapist Joel Valdez, who claimed his victim had consented to "making love" because she asked him to put on a condom. The woman said her request was driven by a fear of AIDS. Valdez was sentenced to 40 years...