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...There are movies made everyday glorifying death, murder, and sex. Why does hip-hop have to be the first one to take the fall? -D. Lee in North Carolina It doesn't have to, but it does. People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists. In the movies, the violence is so gratuitous. The sad truth is that people can't take it when it's reality. The difference between blues, jazz, rock n' roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It's scarier...
There are movies made everyday glorifying death, murder, and sex. Why does hip-hop have to be the first one to take the fall? -D. Lee in North CarolinaIt doesn't have to, but it does. People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists. In the movies, the violence is so gratuitous. The sad truth is that people can't take it when it's reality. The difference between blues, jazz, rock n' roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It's scarier to look...
...proposal is a more extreme version of the so-called " Jessica's Law " passed by the Florida legislature in the wake of the February 2005 rape and murder of nine-year-old Jessica Lunsford. That landmark statute imposed mandatory 25-year prison terms and life electronic monitoring for sex offenders, and since its passage in May 2005 42 states and Congress have implemented or are considering their own very similar laws...
...judge may not feel a 25-year sentence is warranted. Since an estimated 80% of child sexual assaults are committed by family members, groups like Amacher's are concerned that mandatory sentence laws, not to mention the death penalty, might dissuade certain people from reporting abuse to authorities. "With sex offenders we want to say let's lock them up and throw away the key - these folks are just awful, after all - but it's just not realistic," Amacher said...
...Legal scholars from both sides of the political spectrum have warned Texas legislators the death penalty for repeat sex offenders would likely be declared unconstitutional. In 1977 the Supreme Court ruled in Coker vs. Georgia that the death penalty in rape cases was cruel and unusual punishment. Nevertheless, several states have retained old laws providing the death penalty for rape of minors - including Florida, Montana and Louisiana. Only one state, Louisiana, currently has someone on death row charged with raping a child: Patrick O. Kennedy, who faces the death penalty after being convicted in 2003 of raping an eight-year...