rape

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Louisiana, an existing Supreme Court decision declaring capital punishment for child rape to be unconstitutional.

From Slate • Jul. 1, 2026

Levy's defence lawyer, Siobhan Grey, told the court that the alleged rape victim "is not telling the truth about the alleged attack and that her credibility, reliability and honesty are called into question".

From BBC • Jun. 29, 2026

“The District Attorney’s Office did the right thing dismissing this rape charge that should never have been brought in the first place,” Kaplan said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 25, 2026

According to Griffin’s dueling lawsuit, every element of her former classmate’s account is false, and the accusation that Griffin “stole the rape of another woman and built a bestseller on it” is fabricated.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2026

This was the same year in which William Blake evoked England’s 'dark, Satanic mills* in his poem ‘Jerusalem’, but Beethoven's easy-listening Pastoral is not about the industrial rape of the countryside.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall