US court bans juvenile executions

[Egaladeist]

Hi l3lacklce,

Yes, and juice the therapists too.

and the judges, lawyers, and parole boards who let them go to do it again. juice em' all





seriously though... if you made parole boards more responsible for the actions of those they release you wouldn't see very many repeat offenders getting out.

[rapier57]

As for the mental or intellectual health (or lack thereof) of the residents of death row:

They are on death row. Mainstream they ain't.

[!mitationRust]

Originally posted here by |3lack|ce As for your great grandmother and the one who killed here - I'm sorry to hear that. I'm sure it was a great loss to your family, however I don't think a session of boot-camp would be enough to punish the murderer for his act now would it?

No of course not! I'm just saying if you’re a minor damned to prison for life, you should be forced into boot-camp phase one. Then when you're of age to go to prison, you should be shipped off to Alaska for three years of boot-camp phase two. Let Uncle Sam mold them into useful assets, learning skills so they can be productive, so they can further our interest wherever it may be suitable. And that my friend IMHO is better then knowing that the little bastards are loafing in prison spreading STD's, and being counterproductive for life. All I'm trying to get across here is they ****ed up big, a time or two but that doesn’t mean they're worthless for the rest of their being. Uncle Sam does have the ability to change the young, growing minds of these perps. It may take time but they own plenty of that. Get them started on ANWAR. ****, I don't know, anything but them sitting around eating soybean salisbury steak. Hell, make them drill for water for the thirsty in Africa. Make them grow and pass out wheat for those kids you see on feed the children.

[|3lack|ce]

It sure would be nice if we could - unfortunately the same 'cruel and unusual punishment' clause would be cited at (by) the Supreme Court that was used to justify today's action. The best course we can hope for at this point is to write our Congressmen and hope things change. You can find your congressman's name/mailing address at:

http://www.house.gov/writerep/

or your Senator at:

http://www.senate.gov/general/contac...nators_cfm.cfm

[RoadClosed]

I would do everything in my power to stop him from committing other crimes.

That's just the point, you can't stop him. You can teach and mold him into your likeness and moral standard but there comes a point. Maybe when he's 12, where he is faced with a decision alone. And he will make it, and you can never do anything outside of influence the outcome. He may think of you while making the choice but the choice is up to him. He can get help but once the desisions are outside of mom saying yes or no, he's on his own.