The feminist response to high-profile public cases of domestic violence – like those of Chris Brown, who was convicted for brutally beating his then-girlfriend Rihanna in 2009, or the NFL players Ray Rice, arrested on domestic violence charges in February, and Ray McDonald, who was just arrested on felony domestic violence charges for assaulting his fiancée – is largely one of frustration.
The area's top cop noted his department had installed cameras in some precincts following the indictment of his predecessor, James Burke Burkee was convicted last year for beating the man who'd stolen his bag of sex toys while the suspect was handcuffed in a police interrogation room.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 8 — Lawyers for a man convicted of beating a former girlfriend to death with a lead pipe argued before the Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday that their client should be spared the death penalty, partly because jurors were not allowed to smoke while deliberating.
In 2006, during the Bush administration, David A. Passaro, a former civilian contractor for the C.I.A., was convicted of beating an Afghan prisoner with a two-foot metal flashlight while interrogating him; the man later died.
In a fascinating experiment at the University of Limerick a few years ago, participants were first bored witless by being made to do a repetitive task and then asked to suggest punishments for an imaginary Englishman convicted of beating up an Irishman.
In another case, a drug-dealer convicted of beating his girlfriend, jailed twice for other brutal, barbaric attacks, successfully cited his young daughter as grounds to evade deportation.
A man convicted of beating a woman to death in a murder-for-hire scheme was executed by injection today.
Mustafah Muhammad, the Indianapolis Colts defensive back convicted of beating his pregnant wife, was suspended without pay for two games by the National Football League yesterday.
A former partner of Rebecca Shuttleworth, the mother convicted of beating her son Keanu Williams to death, has been jailed for at least 29 years after admitting murdering a new girlfriend and her baby.
She sat at a table and read, with the aid of a magnifying glass, part of "New York: Sentimental Journeys," her 1991 essay for The Review about the Central Park Five, the teenagers wrongly convicted of beating and raping a jogger.
