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Late on a balmy summer night in 1974, the kitchen door of Allen and El-nita Carver's two-room house was suddenly thrown open. In stepped Coker, 24, a convicted rapist and murderer who had just escaped from a nearby prison. Brandishing a three-foot board, Coker forced Mrs. Carver, who was still recovering from the birth of a son three weeks earlier, to help tie up her husband in the bathroom. That done, he grabbed a steak knife and assaulted her. He then took her with him as he fled in the Carver car. Sheriffs deputies captured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Arguing About Death for Rape | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

...point, Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. of Virginia frostily asked Kendall: "What would be an appropriate punishment for a convicted rapist serving life who escapes and commits another rape?" Incarceration, Kendall replied. Powell drove the point home: "The same punishment he had before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Arguing About Death for Rape | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

Moments later she is onstage for the first of eight skits. She plays a schoolteacher who seduces a pupil, then is surprised and caned by the school principal The longest number includes a rape fantasy, wrestling women, and the punishment of a rapist by whipping and crucifixion. Chip Durgom, a small, bearded man of 28, stars in The Astronaut, a sketch involving a woman's fantasy about shrinking a man to the height of only a few inches, which then shades into a man's fantasy about returning to the womb. In a chicken fantasy, Durgom plays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Sex Fantasy on Broadway | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...Indians had the right idea," says Brenda, a cocktail waitress in Orem. "When a rapist was caught, he got tied down and everyone was invited to throw stones. You better believe the other young bucks got the right idea. Poor Gary-I love him even though he is a murderer. Gary says the only way to atone for the dead is to give your own life. He's prepared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Much Ado About Gary | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

Last year, for instance, a Maryland jury awarded $13 million (later cut to $1.9 million in an out-of-court settlement) to the family of a woman who had been raped and beaten to death in a bloody 45-minute battle in her apartment. The rapist-killer, on parole for armed robbery, had been allowed into the building to move furniture in a next-door apartment, even though he was clearly drunk. Worse, a fellow workman noticed his absence when he heard the woman screaming. Instead of rushing to the rescue, he phoned his boss. The jury found the murderer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Price of Rape | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

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