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"Should Juvenile Offenders get the Death Penalty?"
Response from Mandi Marie Klopenstine (Email withheld for their privacy)
I as a older teen do not believe in killing our kids for juvenile
crimes.... it's wrong just like the kids... let's help the kids with the problems they
have ... I blame a lot of it on the media... if the media would keep the camera out of
those kids face that does this then I believe it will calm down some ....
Response from Lisa (Email withheld for their privacy)
I have not thought about this subject before and I felt like I had to respond. I can
understand people being against having a juvenile death penalty. After all children are
our future. However, I feel that if a juvenile has committed such a horrible crime like
murder and can be tried like adults they should get the death penalty like adults.
Response from Neal (Email withheld for their privacy)
Actually the death penalty is much more expensive in most states. Check out
California. And a mental illness can be derived from the childrearing process... cool
...Rock on
My Reply: I will concede that mental problems can occur due to traumatic
blows to the head or highly intense psychological torture, but I do not believe that child
rearing in and of itself causes mental illnesses. BTW - reread my last statement on the
cost of the death penalty. - JR
Response from Cynthia Brown (Email withheld for their privacy)
I too am in a debate with my CT class. The irony is I am Pro death
penalty for juveniles.
I am a parent and this becomes a hard subject. I look at my innocent
child and wonder How would I feel it my child were on death row. That would be
devastating! However, I think of this same child being a victim by a peer. AWFUL!
If a child can commit a crime they should be held responsible.
They can be held in juvenile centers and then transfered when they reach 18
years. By the time a juvenile has been convicted, and gone through the appeal
system they are no longer juveniles.
Murder, Rape - Felonies - should carry mandatory sentencing for both
juveniles and adults.
Response from Meda (Email withheld for their privacy)
I have to disagree with saying that the death penalty should be used on juviniles,
because first of all the death penalty is extremely wrong. If we kill a person for murder,
why are we killing them? to make them pay for what they did, for vengence, we are
vengefully killing them, because they killed someone. Murder is murder, and vengefully
murdering someone is extremely wrong even in our court system , so by killing criminals
were breaking the rules to prove that were all mighty and have the last word, but isn't
our creator truthfully the only one that will have the last word, and right to judge us.
WE as humans don't have the right to put the value of one mans life above the others and
to killa man for taking the life of another is valuing ones life over another. These
are some of reasons why the death penalty is immoral, but to use this immoral form of
punishment on children, is unimagineable. Juviniles aren't completly mentally mature, and
don't always make the right decision,they should be punished accordinglyto their
mistakles, but at that immature of a level, they shouldn't be put to death for their
crimes. many years of jail and rehabilitation should leave the child capable enough to
re-enter society. if not, they can rot in prison till they die, but to kill them is wrong.
for some of them it is even an escape of going through the torchure and torment of
prisaon. juviniles should be punished with people of similar ages, aqnd by keeping a child
locked up for the rest of their life is reason enough for a child to not kill, we don't
have to threaten to kill the child.
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