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19 May 2017, 7:25 am by Dan Ernst
The use of water torture divided the Army, the Senators who investigated the practice, and the nation.It was against this backdrop of controversy that President Theodore Roosevelt delivered an address to veterans of the Great Rebellion on Memorial Day in 1902, in which he promised to discover and acknowledge every instance of cruelty and barbarity, fairly punish those guilty of such crimes, and take strong action to minimize such crimes in the future. [read post]
7 Jan 2015, 4:00 am
Chris Joseph of the Broward/Palm Beach New Times reports (here) that a Florida reptile store owner was "arrested on battery and cruelty to animal charges on Friday after he allegedly hit some of his employees with a live lizard multiple times. [read post]
9 Jun 2015, 8:57 am
Welch passionately, "Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness....If there is a God in heaven, it [the attack on Mr. [read post]
8 Sep 2018, 7:23 pm by Howard Friedman
 You can listen to this march of horrors, abuse, cruelty, and death and recognize that it was not a walk in the park. [read post]
12 Jun 2013, 10:55 am
Patterson ("The defendant,...appeals from the judgment of the Appellate Court affirming in part and reversing in part the judgment of conviction, rendered after a trial to the court, of one count of criminally negligent homicide in violation of General Statutes § 53a 58 (a), two counts of cruelty to persons in violation of General Statutes § 53 20, and two counts of risk of injury to a child in violation of General Statutes § 53-21. [read post]
2 May 2013, 8:07 am
If he had beaten his wife without fault or if he hit her with arms or sticks or with cruelty or without any restraint, the judge was compelled by the law to divorce them. [read post]
2 Nov 2016, 10:28 am
Illinois formerly required grounds for divorce such as bigamy, impotence, and mental cruelty, but, now, a no-fault divorce will be granted simply based upon “irreconcilable differences. [read post]
26 Dec 2018, 12:30 pm
How a Congolese mother and child set in motion an extraordinary battle that exposed government conduct unprecedented in its cruelty and carelessness. [read post]
30 Oct 2024, 8:00 am by ernst
They supported and founded schools, formed ties with white lawyers and abolitionists, petitioned local and state officials for better laws, guarded against kidnapping and cruelty, and shaped New York’s evolving identity as a free state. [read post]
28 Apr 2011, 5:00 pm
Based on allegations of cruelty made by prosecutors, the grand jury upgraded the original charges. [read post]
3 Feb 2013, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
The activities of state and local governments reveal an even more dynamic landscape of "state interference" during this era, especially with respect to the shared movement to prevent cruelty to animals and children. [read post]
28 Apr 2021, 10:30 pm by Mitra Sharafi
Here's the abstract: The 1876 British Cruelty to Animals Act introduced an unprecedented administrative system to supervise any experiment “calculated to give pain” to a living animal. [read post]
4 Feb 2024, 9:29 am
The world is chaos, cruelty and despair, but in a peaceful corner of the internet, a woman in sprigged muslin is meditatively pickling beets in a shaft of sunlight or pouring raw milk into a pitcher. [read post]
27 Oct 2017, 11:19 am
There are eight grounds for dissolution of a marriage provided by Maryland state law, two of which are “no-fault” (12 month separation or mutual consent) and six of which are fault-based (adultery, desertion, incarceration in prison, confinement in a mental hospital, cruelty, and excessively vicious conduct).In a one-year separation divorce, the person asking for the divorce must prove that the parties have lived separate and apart without cohabitation for 12 months without… [read post]
11 Oct 2021, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
Gaylord, Roe as Potemkin Village: Fallacies, Facades, and Stare Decisis (September 17, 2021).Jean-Francois Achille, 'Unnecessary Cruelty': Freedom of Religion and the Humane Slaughter Act (May 15, 2021).David R. [read post]
17 Aug 2013, 4:21 pm
In Massachusetts, first degree murder can be charged where the act is committed with either deliberate premeditation and malice; or extreme atrocity or cruelty with malice. [read post]
16 Dec 2024, 2:48 pm by Daniel M. Kowalski
FULL REPORT: ‘We Need to Take Away Children’: Zero Accountability Six Years After ‘Zero Tolerance’ “It’s chilling to see, in document after document, the calculated cruelty that went into the forcible family separation policy,” said Michael Garcia Bochenek , senior children’s rights counsel at Human Rights Watch and an author of the report. [read post]