Category Archives: punishment

Nyet Gay In Russia

April 25, 2012 – 12:36 pm

The Russian criminal code in 1832 “muzhelozhstvo” or men lying with men a criminal act punishable by exile to Siberia for up to 5 years according the Wikipedia. The police rarely arrested men for this crime against nature, since the hunger that dare not speak its name was reserved for the upper classes of Tsarist [...]

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Justice For None

August 31, 2011 – 1:01 pm

I was sitting in Chengdu back in 1995. The streets were lined with people watching the passage of several trucks loaded with condemned prisoners. Each had his head lowered in shame. His family had paid for his bullets. If they had money, they gave the executing officer a bonus to deliver the coup de grace. [...]

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