: Death penalty sought in slayings

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The state says it will seek the death penalty if a jury convicts an Illinois truck driver in the killing of a woman in Nashville. via The Herald Bulletin

[Bill]

What if this was a woman and the victims were men?

[just candid]

Bill wrote:

What if this was a woman and the victims were men?

The answer is the woman would get away with these crimes or, she would get a very easy sentence at a comfortable women's prison. You know this state is only harsh, arbitrary and, contemptous of men

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Want to know more about how women are favored over men in this nation and what we real men are doing about it? visit here http://news.mensactivism.org/

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For anyone who wants to try and make a rebuttal against this read this article: http://news.nationaljournal.com/articles/0804...

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"The federal government formally got into the business of combating domestic violence in 1994, when Congress folded the Violence Against Women Act [PDF] into a wide-ranging anti-crime bill. Since then, lawmakers have poured at least $5.5 billion into programs for battered women's shelters, rape crisis centers, relevant police training, and related research. In 2000 and 2005, Congress expanded the law to cover stalking, domestic violence in homes with children, and dating violence." Yet they have NOT done anything about female on male domestic violence/abuse. The only things "law enforcement" has done is, always put the man in jail and charge him with a crime, even if HE IS THE VICTIM! Look at the Mary Winkler case. If a husband had done what she did, he could claim domestic violence/abuse all he wanted to. Not one person would WANT TO HEAR ANYTHING HE HAD TO SAY. He would have been sentenced to life or sent to death row to face a DEFINATE EXECUTION! This sexist "law" has allowed too many women to make false allegations against any man and have "fun" seeing him go to jail/prison, while she can admit later to having lied about the whole thing and get to walk free without any punishment.

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We men have been contributing to this sexist law since it was created but, it DOES NOT DO ANYTHING FOR US.

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For years, the image of a T-shirted working-class bully who beats his wife has been the standard symbol of violence against women. Protective court orders and confidential shelters for battered women are the answers for such crimes, and the same tools have been applied to child abuse; sibling abuse; elder abuse; stalking; and intimate-partner violence, which includes injury inflicted by spouses, co-habitants, lovers, and dating youths.

The resulting variety and volume of court cases are forcing advocates, academics, judges, and court officials to shift their focus from law enforcement alone to an approach that integrates law enforcement, mediation, and parental negotiations.

The rules in the nation's courtrooms "are designed around the assumption that you have a real batterer situation," yet many cases don't fit the stereotype, said Michael Johnson, a retired associate professor of sociology and women's studies at Pennsylvania State University. "The judges I work with are saying,'Help us recognize these other things, and remember, we only have 10 minutes in court to see what's going on.' "

The change is also a result of controversial research that undermines the stereotype by revealing that women initiate some of the violence. A May 2007 study published in the American Journal of Public Health, for example, showed minor or major violence in one-quarter of relationships among 11,370 people ages 18 to 28. Fifty percent of the violent relationships included reciprocal pushing, hitting, and threats. In the other half, according to the study,>>>>>> women made seven out of 10 attacks -- defined as actual or threatened pushing, throwing, hitting, or slapping<<<<. Yet it is the man who gets to jail/prison

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"So is domestic violence on the decline? Cindy Dyer, the director of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women since December, says no, largely because many cases still go unreported". Many of these cases involve battered men (men battered by women, who are basically told to "take it like a man" and "get over it". http://www.batteredmen.com/

[just candid]

"What is the relationship between law and morality?"

[Bill]

just candid wrote:

"What is the relationship between law and morality?"

Are you kidding? The two do not exist together here