61.   The proposals would amend outdated colonial laws to provide sentencing for convicted rapists ranging between five years and life imprisonment.

62.   The Senate Judiciary committee hired Chertoff after the Corrections Department admitted it made numerous errors before convicted rapist Raymond Alves was released in March.

63.   The sponsor of the vigil, African-Americans Against Violence, had asked the convicted rapist to join them and publicly repent.

64.   The tests also found that semen from a blanket at the crime scene was that of a convicted rapist, whom authorities declined to identify.

65.   To combat the rising number of rape cases, a lawmaker on Tuesday proposed amputating the penises of convicted rapists, calling this a more humane punishment than execution.

66.   An Indonesian minister wants convicted rapists shown on television to help discourage the crime, the official Antara news agency said Saturday.

67.   Convicted rapists El-Sayed Mustafa al-Malki and Walid al-Said al-Tubgi were executed in Zagazig, northern Egypt.

68.   Convicted rapists will have to take an AIDS test.

69.   Dutroux, a convicted rapist, has been charged with abducting six girls for a paedophile network and murdering four of them.

70.   The population has been increasingly frustrated since the arrest in August of convicted rapist Marc Dutroux.