Maryanne Trump Barry Quotes
Thugs who brutalize elderly people should be punished severely.
Barry, Maryanne Trump. Quoted in Blair, Gwenda. The Trumps: Three Generations That Built an Empire. Simon & Schuster, 2000.
Named after penal reformer Johne Howard, 1726-1790. Howard Associations have since been organized in many countries.
This law is used to free “honor killing” murderers who have killed female relatives for what they thought was a sexual transgression that “stained the family honor.” The custom exists in some other countries but rarely with such sanction of law. In the case of Article 548 the word “witnesses” is interpreted to mean “heard about it” or even has some reason to suspect it. Each year in Syria hundreds of innocent women, and even girls are killed with impunity. In one 2007 case a 15 year old girl was kidnapped and raped. When she was freed by the police she was jailed. A cousin got her released by agreeing to marry her, but after the marriage, one of her own brothers, with the knowledge and concurrence of the rest of the family, butchered her with a knife. The family then held a party to celebrate the cleansing of their honor.
This was the first report or expose of “Thuggee” a quasi-religious Indian cult that revolved around robbery and murder. The word “thug” came to English from the Hindi word for the member of the cult.
This statement was made long after slavery had been abolished and Jim Crow was on the rise in the South.
Elder Abuse is a serious problem that most people do not realize it exists to the degree that it does.
Queen Boudicca of the Iceni tribe had revolted in Roman Britain. The Romans where particularly harsh in putting down revolts but under Emperor Nero and Caligula after him, they sunk to the deepest of barbarities,
Charles Dickens himself, a true nineteenth-century liberal, lent his weight to the campaign to abolish public executions. After seeing the execution of Maria and Frederick Mannings for murdering Maria’s lover, Patrick O’Connor, in Horsemonger Lane, outside the Surrey County Gaol on 13 November 1849, he wrote this to the Times. Public hangings were abolished in 1868. The last one took place outside Newgate Prison on 26 May of that same year. The man hanged was an Irish terrorist called Michael Barratt who had blown up the Clerkenwell House of Detention killing six people. A drunken crowd stayed up all night to witness the execution. They cheered wildly when the scaffold was brought out at dawn. More people – mainly young women and children – began to arrive. By the time a bell was sounded at eight o’clock in the morning to announce the arrival of the condemned man, the crowd stretched back as far as Smithfield.
Note that the fact that she had suffered sposal abuse. She poisoned her husband who repeadedly beat her and her children. Althoughh the evidence was heard, there was nothing that could in the then German legal system used to justify the killing of a husband. Germany was not then the only country which would not allow violent spousal abuse as a defense or a mitigating factor in the sentence. The German punishment for a woman murdering her husband was then beheading. Even as late as the mid 19th century, they were still decapitating trangressors of their laws. The Germans actually developed a special kind of sword with no point just for beheadings.
Maryanne Trump Barry is an American attorney and a retired United States federal judge. She became an Assistant United States Attorney in 1974, and was first appointed to the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey by President Ronald Reagan in 1983. In 1999, she was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, by President Bill Clinton.
