[Robbin]

I was called insane for suggesting Farah was a Kook because he advocated the death penalty for adultery. I couldn't find that article, thou I read it myself so I know what he said, but I found one where he He would not only Free a woman who murdered her cheating husband, but give her a medal. Fundamentally the same think I think ...

[damondonion]

The one Texas case I've seen described on television in which I'd definitely never have agreed to a guilty verdict was that of a woman who stabbed her husband about 200 times and I believe the woman's name was Susan Wright...

There has to be more to the picture than simple adultry or abuse and in this case there was, i.e. it was a case of somebody (the husband) not recognizing that slavery had gone by the boards 135 years ago.