supreme court ruling, for those that support the death penalty Options

[heyyfrankie]

i heard last night that the supreme court made a new ruling that minors that commit a crime cannot be sentenced to the death penalty. it is effecting 19 states. (i think). i, personally, think that is not right. their age has nothing to do with wheter they should get the penalty or not. because of this new ruling, 9 criminals are going to be free men (in texas). one of the men that is going to be set free is a man that car-jacked a touring couple, made them drive out into the country begging for their lives, rapped the wife in front of her husband, then killed her before killing him.
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what do you think of this?

[sadolakced acid]

cost more to put someone to death...

anyways; this was already happening...

if you're under 18, and do something that would get you the death penalty, you can run to mexico.

if you make it, they won't (previously) make you go back because they don't support the death penalty, and expecially not for children.

so; murder 100s of people the day before your 18th birthday, make it to mexico, and you're free.

(but not anymore... i belive that mexico may change it's policy and return them to life sentences.)

[*CrackedRearView*]

cost more to put someone to death...

Skewed logic. It costs more, assuming that appeals are allowed. In the case of a serial killer who executes 5 people in a week (Ken McDuff), appeals shouldn't be an option. You will then see that the killer will not camp on death row for 40 years, he'll jump to the front of the line and be injected with a $200.00 helping of sodium thiopental, pancuronium bromide, and potassium chloride, and the families of the victims can sleep soundly forever.

Now, on the flip side, 50+ years of food, shelter, upkeep, and care of an inmate costs upwards of $60,000, according to a 1999 book by Oxford University's Hugo Bedau. It's 2005 though, and that number could be astronomically higher at this point.

We should work more on PREVENTION. Not PUNISHMENT.

When you figure out a way to alter the chemicals in the brain of a man who just walked in on his wife in bed with his brother, or best friend, or something of that sort, and calm him down, you let me know. Chances are, even with someone with an average level of tranquility can't be supplied with enough endorphins to walk in on that permiscuous act and feel nothing.

1st degree murder? Same situation. No matter how perfect you'd like to believe this world is, there are people out there worthy of being institutionalized. Clinically insane people who just never made it to the clinic. Chances are, you can't PREVENT that, either.


All things considered, I don't care if the person is 13 years old. If he/she takes the lives of multiple people vindictively, he/she should have their life ended in the same fashion.