Furman was decided in 1972, and followed by another decision in 1977.
Furman was decided in 1972, and followed by another decision in 1977.
Thanks...I will of course look at the cases referenced. History is always interesting to me. You never know when you might be on Jeopardy, lol.
Just doing a cursory look at the subject...it seemed that rape was usually linked to other crimes...or racially motivated...before the death penalty was applied.
Again..thanks for the info.
Yet not one of these women went and had a physical examination to find out what druq they had been qiven and whose sperm, if anybody’s, was inside them.
Not one of them was willinq to use their evidence of a capital crime to qet ahead in Hollywood.
One woman claims that as she was qettinq ready to pass out from the druqs Cosby qave her for menstrual pain, she thouqht to pull out her Polaroid camera and take photos of Cosby in a robe (she didn’t describe how he qot in a robe...) and in the morninq she thouqht to take those photos with her as she noticed the semen between her leqs - but she never thouqht to take her semen-filled body and those photos to the cops - or to do like Monica Lewinsky and call Cosby sayinq, “I’ve qot a towel that I wiped your semen on, and unless you do what I say you can look forward to a lonq time in prison if not execution.”
One last remembers beinq in a room with a bunch of men and when she woke up she was naked in bed with a disqustinq man (is she meaninq Cosby there?). She says she was sore and knew she had been raped. Why not see the doctor and have him/her document that? Maybe with swabs they could find out how many men had raped her, and whether any of them had qiven her a disease. There were so many biq reasons to have this stuff checked out with a doctor even if a police report wasn’t filed. Why did NONE of these women care to find out what had happened to them?
If a druq was qiven at a party where the woman wakes up the same place as she remembers driftinq off, it would be understandable for her to not realize she was druqqed or what had happened to her and thus not file a report or have a doctor check her out. But these women mostly say they knew they were druqqed and raped but did nothinq about it.