On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Liza Featherstone wrote:
> Agreed that Singer's view is *very* unlikely ever to get anywhere near the
> U.S. mainstream. Americans actually tend to be a lot more horrified by
> infanticide than many other cultures; in Britain, I think, baby-killing is
> generally prosecuted as manslaughter, hardly ever as murder (Brits on the
> list correct me if I'm wrong).
Agreed that we say we're horrified in the papers. But in the coverage surrounding the nanny case, I thought I remembered being surprised to read that low sentences were the norm for baby killers in the US -- and that the sentence given the British nanny was in line with that norm. I think the figures were given by the judge in the course of justifying his actionn and recycled without demur by mainstream papers.
Michael
__________________________________________________________________________ Michael Pollak................New York City..............mpollak at panix.com