Here is the newest legislation passed by Arnold himself: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm.../nm/20040910/od_uk_nm/oukoe_crime_necrophilia Schwarzenegger outlaws sex with corpses Fri Sep 10, 6:28 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Having sex with corpses is now officially illegal in California after Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (news - web sites) signed a bill barring necrophilia, a spokeswoman says. The new legislation marks the culmination of a two-year drive to outlaw necrophilia in the state and will help prosecutors who have been stymied by the lack of an official ban on the practice, according to experts. "Nobody knows the full extent of the problem. ... But a handful of instances over the past decade is frequent enough to have a bill concerning it," said Tyler Ochoa, a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law who has studied California cases involving allegations of necrophilia. "Prosecutors didn't have anything to charge these people with other than breaking and entering. But if they worked in a mortuary in the first place, prosecutors couldn't even charge them with that," Ochoa said on Friday. The state's first attempt to outlaw necrophilia, in response to a case of a man charged with having sex with the corpse of a 4-year-old girl in Southern California, stalled last year in a legislative committee. Lawmakers revived the bill this year after an unsuccessful prosecution of a man found in a San Francisco funeral home drunk and passed out on top of an elderly woman's corpse. The new law makes sex with a corpse a felony punishable by up to eight years in prison.
I'm pretty sure that when you're governor, you are expected to either sign or veto the legislation put before you (at least most of the time). It's interesting and sad that there was apparently a need for this kind of law.
Damn. First the zombies keep losing in Hollywood movies, and now this. Necrophiliacs just can't seem to catch a break.
Me and my roomates saw this on a shirt and it just become a sort twisted jokes that colleges students like to repeat. Dead Girls Don't Say No
I would have thought there would already be a law against it. Guess there wasn't. Apparently it does need to be done - the weird thing is 1) the practice itself, and 2) the fact that there was so much opposition... WTF?
Yeah, that's what I was thinking, along with GriffinFan's sentiments.... I guess California is a safer place now.....
