To apply this sort of law in Senegal, goes this argument, would be quite different to doing so in France, where on February 2nd a trial began against Hawa Gréou, a Malian, for mutilating girls of Malian origin there.The debate about female genital mutilation, like polygamy and witchcraft, is highly charged.
Even authorisation of ordinary spending (the government lives hand-to-mouth, as most of this year's budget has not been yet passed) is being taken to the brink.Even if this do-nothing 112th Congress manages to avoid mutilating the economy, it seems unlikely to do anything to help it.
On January 14th he filed a civil suit asking the county to order the hospital to stop its "life-sustaining" treatment, which is, as the suit puts it, "mutilating, disturbing and damaging Marlise's deceased body".Tom Mayo, a law professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas who was part of the working group that drafted the 1999 law, explains that the group did not start from scratch.
But they won few hearts: they soon turned to looting villages, mutilating and killing civilians and abducting children to turn them into fighters.Previous peace efforts collapsed.
For if the government is to have any chance of making its planned spending cuts without mutilating public services, it will have to find many more savings in the welfare bill the biggest chunk of public expenditure, dwarfing even the National Health Service.Already in his budget in June Mr Osborne had identified £11 billion of welfare savings by 2014-15, the final year of this parliament.
Incidents such as the death sentence administered by the Parlement of Paris in 1766 against the 18-year-old chevalier de la Barre, accused of mutilating a crucifix and owning a copy of Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique (1764; Philosophical Dictionary), showed, however, that the courts were not entirely on the side of the Enlightenment.
Kony, armed with prophecies that he said he received from spirits who came to him in dreams, ordered the LRA to attack villages, murdering, raping, and mutilating in a campaign of intimidation that displaced some two million people.
March 31 In Fallujah, Iraq, four American men working for a private security company are ambushed and killed; within minutes a large mob forms, burning the cars and then, with apparent jubilation, mutilating the corpses.
In 1974 the killer attacked another couple, this time mutilating the body of the female victim.
They slaughtered between 150 and 200 Indians, mutilating most of the corpses in the process.
The U.S. Civil War was the turning point in breaking down public resistance to "mutilating" the body and in establishing arterial embalming as a common practice in the United States.
