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...ordinarily spare him the death penalty for his 1979 slaying of grocery store clerk Mary Lou York. But under a Supreme Court ruling allowing states to medicate inmates? whose mental condition poses a danger to themselves or others, Singleton is forced to take the very drugs that render him sane enough to be executed...
...Arkansas in a very dicey box. "In the majority of similar cases across the country, courts do not allow insane people to be put to death," says TIME Austin bureau chief Sam Gwynne.? "Nor have courts upheld the right of states to medicate prisoners so that they will be sane enough to execute...
...world suddenly gone sane. And one of the nicer features of peace in Northern Ireland, surely, is that we won't have to sit through any more Brad Pitt-as-an-IRA-hard-guy stinkers. A peace dividend never smelled so sweet...
Furthermore, Oppenheim's argument that "normal, sane men are not confused by their experiences with poster girls, seedy restaurants or gentleman's magazines" is problematic. While many men can distinguish between the "mass market, two-dimensional" image of women that they enjoy purely for aesthetic reasons and the world of "three-dimensional women," I am not convinced that everyone is adept at distinguishing the media image of women from the real image of women. The tendency to view members of a particular gender as objects in the imagined world can easily filter into the "real world" causing a situation where...
Some feminists would argue that this distinction of spheres is convenient on theoretical grounds but that it breaks down in practice. They argue that exposure to sexual objectification distorts men's perception of all women. They are wrong. Normal, sane men are not confused by their experiences with poster girls, seedy restaurants or gentlemen's magazines. Their enjoyment of such diversions does not render them incapable of healthy, respectful relationships with the opposite sex. Nor do the pathological among us receive their decisive nudge into misogyny from such sources...