Word: penalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concerning the American Law Institute's recommendation that sodomy as well as adultery be removed from the list of crimes against the peace and dignity of the state. This is certainly a step in the right direction toward a much needed revision of most of the states' penal codes...
...penal codes in the United States are probably the most flagrant infringements of personal liberties that exist, and it is fine to see that we have thinking jurists who recommend that our churches, schools and parental influences should guide our morals...
...purposes of the American Law Institute, founded 32 years ago by Statesman Elihu Root, is "to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs." Up for discussion before the institute last week was a Model Penal Code, covering sex and other offenses, which state legislatures can use as a guide. In explaining their approach to sex laws, the code's drafters said: "The code does not attempt to use the power of the state to enforce purely moral or religious standards. We deem it inappropriate for the Government to attempt to control...
...past few years, and many more will soon appear on video. Professor Arthur E. Sutherland is currently organizing a weekly series to be entitled 'Life in Law." Although this program will rely mainly on lawyers, guest scholars from many fields will discuss such problems as segregation, penal reforms, and labor unions...
...midnight and 3 a.m., the convicts were polite but adamant. They faced the com mittee across a table, set up with a pad and pencil as if for a board-of-directors meeting. They served coffee to the committeemen, talked at length of their hopeless futures, the rigid Massachusetts penal code, the miserable living conditions in Cherry Hill (one of the committeemen, Editor Erwin D. Canham of the Christian Science Monitor, was shut for a few min utes in one of the granite solitary cells -to see how it felt). At the second meeting, the following afternoon, the tensions mounted...