Death penalty - two posts in one

High court: Juvenile death penalty unconstitutional. (CNN.com)


Supreme Court Rules Death Penalty for Youths Unconstitutional. (FoxNews.com)


US bans death penalty for juveniles. (Ananova.com)


High Court Ends Death Penalty for Youths. (NYPost.com)


La Cour suprême des Etats-Unis a aboli la peine de mort à l'encontre des mineurs. (LeMonde.fr)


JUVENILE EXECUTION BAN (Sky.com)


Höchstes US-Gericht verbietet Todesstrafe für Jugendliche. (Spiegel.de)


El Supremo deEE UU anula la pena de muerte para los menores. (ElPais.es)


Forbyr henrettelser av barn. (Adressa.no)



About bloody time!
I don't like the death penalty. I don't agree with it. It's not ok to kill no matter how you do it. I don't think you can have laws that say you can't kill, but if you do, then we can kill you. The law should be the same for everyone - even the state, government, the president or whoever. You might say killers go to prison and live comfortably, get an education and then they might get out and lead a good life.

Do I think a murderer can change? Depends what kind of person he or she is. Someone who kills children "just because I can"... some people just don't feel guilt. They don't understand why they shouldn't do it and I'm not talking about being... what's the correct term here... mentally challenged? Is that a term? I'm not talking about that, with some people there's just something in their brain that doesn't connect - they don't understand that this is bad. Like some people can't feel heat or cold. Something isn't like it should be.

They're dangerous to society. But should we kill them? I know that if someone I knew and love were killed, I might have changed my mind. But then I would let my emotions judge and that usually isn't very smart. Maybe that would be a better way though... Let the family of the victim do what they want to the killer for an hour. Or better yet, let's do to the killer what he/she did to his/her victim(s). Or isn't that what we're doing now?

I think someone who is capable of killing must somehow be capable of justifying it to themselves. There are lots of reasons why people kill and I don't know what is worse. To plan it and do it then get rid of the body and all evidence or just randomly pick someone on the street. I've always thought the second is worse, you don't have a reason. But do you have a reason just because you plan it?

Looking for something on the Supreme Court's decision I came across the page murdervictims.com. On a link I found this passage (don't read if you're feeling nauseaus);


"For the next hour or so, these beautiful, innocent young girls were subjected to the most brutal gang rapes that most of the investigating officers had ever encountered. The confessions of the gang members that were used at trial indicated that there was never less than 2 men on each of the girls at any one time and that the girls were repeatedly raped orally, anally and vaginally for the entire hour. One of the gang members later said during the brag session that by the time he got to one of the girls, "she was loose and sloppy." One of the boys boasted of having 'virgin blood' on him."


Now... I just have to repeat this sentence;

"there was never less than 2 men on each of the girls at any time and that the girls were repeatadly raped (...) for the entire hour".

This is when I wanna puke (and I don't do that a lot). There were six of them, five were sentenced to death. The sixth was 14 years old. He wasn't there for the murders, he was sent away because he was "too little to watch". The girls were 14 and 16. Too young to watch but not too young to die.


So what's the answer? What's the solution that should be written and read and printed and learned? There isn't one. You won't stop crime by punishing. Not in our society. Do people not kill anymore because they fear getting caught? I don't know, do they? If only people, all people, could realize everybody has the same right to life then it wouldn't be a problem. If only...

Send em all to Mars. Beam me up, Scotty!