From: fsars@acad3.alaska.edu (Allen R Sparks)
Newsgroups: soc.men,alt.discrimination,soc.women,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Sex Discrimination in the Death Penalty?
Date: 22 Jul 92 18:47:24 GMT
Article-I.D.: acad3.1992Jul22.104724.1
Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks

In article <1992Jul20.235424.10743@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>, bhv@areaplg2.corp.mot.com (Bronis Vidugiris) writes:
> In article <XgN5NB1w165w@spectrx.saigon.com> mrosa@spectrx.saigon.com (Marie Rosa) writes:
> 
> )I too would be wary of such a classification.  However, if I am not 
> )mistaken, Francine Hughes was the subject of the movie the Burning Bed.
> )In that particular case, she was severely abused by her husband.  I think
> )that this is what should qualify something as a domestic murder, if such
> )qualification is even necessary in the first place, which I do not think 
> )it is.  When someone beats the crap out of you, and you aren't strong
> )enough to confront the beater, and the police don't listen to you, what are
> )you supposed to do to protect yourself???
> 
> Kill them while they are sleeping??? [NOT!]
> 
> Anyway, I do hope the new anti-stalking laws (such as we have in Illinois)
> will help the police take more of an active role in these sorts of cases.
> 
> The other solution seems to me to be "the great equalizer" - i.e. a gun.
> 
> I really do think that killing the spouse while they sleep shouldn't be an
> option without legal penalties.

You're worried about playing FAIR all of a sudden?  Murder is still
murder no matter how it's done.  I don't see how placing one's self in
a more dangerous position (making sure he's awake) makes justifiable
homicide more or less justifiable.  One does what one has to do to
stay alive.  Anyway, women have been killing men while they sleep
throughout the ages.  To decide whether they were moral in doing it,
one has to look at the reasoning behind the act, not the method,
unless the method was deliberately cruel.  === Al Sparks
In article <1992Jul20.235424.10743@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>, bhv@areaplg2.corp.mot.com (Bronis Vidugiris) writes:
> In article <XgN5NB1w165w@spectrx.saigon.com> mrosa@spectrx.saigon.com (Marie Rosa) writes:
> 
> )I too would be wary of such a classification.  However, if I am not 
> )mistaken, Francine Hughes was the subject of the movie the Burning Bed.
> )In that particular case, she was severely abused by her husband.  I think
> )that this is what should qualify something as a domestic murder, if such
> )qualification is even necessary in the first place, which I do not think 
> )it is.  When someone beats the crap out of you, and you aren't strong
> )enough to confront the beater, and the police don't listen to you, what are
> )you supposed to do to protect yourself???
> 
> Kill them while they are sleeping??? [NOT!]
> 
> Anyway, I do hope the new anti-stalking laws (such as we have in Illinois)
> will help the police take more of an active role in these sorts of cases.
> 
> The other solution seems to me to be "the great equalizer" - i.e. a gun.
> 
> I really do think that killing the spouse while they sleep shouldn't be an
> option without legal penalties.

You're worried about playing FAIR all of a sudden?  Murder is still
murder no matter how it's done.  I don't see how placing one's self in
a more dangerous position (making sure he's awake) makes justifiable
homicide more or less justifiable.  One does what one has to do to
stay alive.  Anyway, women have been killing men while they sleep
throughout the ages.  To decide whether they were moral in doing it,
one has to look at the reasoning behind the act, not the method,
unless the method was deliberately cruel.  === Al Sparks
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