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icon9.gif Egad, this is so horribly wrong...  [message #20208] Sat, 20 March 2004 08:21 Go to previous message
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I just learned about a court case where two 13-year-olds from WA state have been charged as adults for the brutal slaying of another 13-year-old. Actually, they were just 12 when the crime alledgedly took place.

The reason? Listen to this:
'"Their actions, I think, speak very clearly that their personalities were formed to the point where rehabilitation generally is not going to be possible," said John Knodell (search), Grant County district attorney.'
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,114294,00.html

OMG, is this guy FOR REAL? If you commit murder after the age of 11, you're irredeemable for the rest of your LIFE?????

At least it seems the state doesn't allow executing children (meaning, other states do I guess? WTF!), so they'd "only" be locked up for 25 years, and MAN, will they be wonderful people by the time they're released, having had no normal adolescence or interaction with any 'normal' people or anything like that. Just think about it, to have your life put on pause, growing up and living in a PRISON from age 13 until you're 38! If you're not ruined for life when you go in, you're almost certainly by the time you come OUT. It's not exactly going to be boy scouts they'd be lodging together with, that's for sure.

Now, I don't know if the kids actually did this terrible crime or not, or what a just punishment would be if they are in fact guilty, but jesus, the US court system is SCARY...


Take care everyone.
-L - officially feeling queasy right now.


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