Word: wrongdoers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What the controversy over crime and punishment tends to overlook is that the Bill of Rights must protect everyone-the unsavory as well as the savory-or it protects no one. The goal of judicial reform should be a system that genuinely safeguards the rights of the accused wrongdoer, yet effectively upholds the innocent citizen's right to be protected from the criminal. If it can achieve both these objectives, the revolution in criminal justice will have been well fought...
With their Gan base jeopardized, the British were proceeding carefully. But Afif would scarcely surrender of his own accord; in the past, it was not unknown for a ruler of the Maldives to take care of a wrongdoer by cutting off his hands...
...former Georgia football coach of trying to fix a Georgia-Alabama game. "Butts was just a symbol," said a juror later. The jury had settled on $3,000,000 in punitive damages, he said, as the proper way to implement the judge's charge to "deter the wrongdoer from repeating trespass." As for the $60,000 general damages, that was simply the jury's calculation of Butts's future earning capacity. "Butts is 58 years old. We figured his life span at twelve more years and agreed on $5,000 a year...
...films showing Japanese and Nazi tortures while Beethoven supplies the sound track. Then, conditioned like Pavlov's dog, Alex is released on society, guaranteed to vomit at the sight of violence or the sound of Beethoven. As one of his brainwashing group observes, "He ceases to be a wrongdoer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice." The experiment fails when Alex goes into a frenzy after hearing some Mozart, leaps from a window and knocks all the grafted goodness out of his gulliver (head...
This merry memoir by a hard-shirking 18th century wrongdoer proves that the wicked and slothful do not always suffer for their sins. William Hickey, the son of a prosperous London attorney, gathered rosebuds by the armload for the greater part of his life, suffered no ill effects except those that could be cured by doses of mercury, and showed no inclination either to repent or boast when cooling blood gave him the leisure to write it all down...