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Child Trials?
03.09.04, 21:06:42
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This is what I think:
It's as simple as, if they're old enough to do the time, then they're old enough to do the time. I'm sure a 14 year old kid knows what he's doing when he kills his parents and he should be tried as an adult. But no, the defendants say that "They're only a child. You shouldn't be so harsh." I say "Yah ok, next time a 15 year old kid kills someone in your family by brutally beating them with a baseball bat you tell me that same thing." (no this didn't happen to my family). If did the crime then they are capable of handling trials and so on. Heck, if I could go around committing crimes and such with the only punishment of a little Juvi' then "Why not?" I'm sure that's what some kids think and as they do the crime and are tried in some child's court they know that they will get off without too harsh of a punishment. It sickens me. |
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But look here. Let's say this kid kills a peer. Now he is given a sentence for 15-20 years! They are 14 years old. Don't you think they're opinions and actions and control will change over that time period.
What if this kid was sentenced to death? It takes about 15 years for the whole capital punishment process. Don't you think the kid would have changed in 15 years. They are not the same person! |
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One day I was taking a walk
On my way, I heard a sponge talk
"If you don't wash the dishes
You'll sleep with the fishes"
But that remark just got him socked
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| I guess I didn't mention that I am against the death penalty. They need to take that out. If they are a changed person by whatever years it takes then they can be put in a minimal security type prison where they can still finish their time, but they can also have a job within the prison. |
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| The death penalty. All I have to say is, if the worlds motto was "An eye for an eye" we are all gonna be blown to pieces very, very soon. |
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| But, I do have to agree with RPG1HERO on this one. Instead of an age limit of some sort, the jurors should decide if this person is still a child in the head or an adult in the head...Or a reckless teenager in the head. I mean, if we set up an age limit, the child-adult transformation takes place in a year. I mean, I know some children who are adults in the head. I know some adults who could pass off as children. Instead of judging a person by their physical state, mental state should be the thing examined in these sorts of acts. |
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| I think there should be child trials, but I don't think you should get the death sentence unless you are over 21, or something like that. Yes, those two boys who killed there father or whatever. That's sick, and they should be tried in court. Although if it was in self defence, that would be another story, but I don't think it was. |
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| You know, there is that sniper from wherever and on the news today, he was sentanced the death penalty. He is also a juvinial and was sentanced the penalty in juvy court. Stupid fools, put him in jail for life. |
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Commiting a crime is commiting a crime. No matter how old you are, the mindframe is the exact same.
Suggestion: public hangings. |
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I say, if a kid kills someone, give them a test and say that they have to pass the test, or they're being put to death. But what they don't know is, it's an IQ test, and if they get a high enough score and are obviously intelligent, they will be put to death, but if they're a jackass like most kids are, then they will get a lesser sentence like capital punishment.
My above silly remark regarding capital punishment reflects my views on it. The whole "eye for an eye" thing is good, because even if everyone ends up blind like Ghandi says, they can still always get Seeing-Eye dogs. I think the problem lies in the long waiting time. If someone kills someone else, and are found guilty, then they die immediately, then move on. This would make the process much more simple, and thus much more frequent, which would counter the rapid population growth of humans on Earth. |
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