Kathy E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Terry IMHO this is a post done by a desperate person, as everyone knows
the DP and the laws surrounding it have all changed. It's pretty
pathetic when you have to go back over 50 years to support your
argument. If you want to seriously discuss this issue at least use the
laws and guidelines we're under now. It would be like me talking about
cruel and unusual punishment that we submit prisoners to and using the
example of the men sentenced to work on slave ships. I would be laughed
at for that type of reasoning. There isn't a comparison, just as your
assertion that the U.S. kills kids under the DP in the US and current
sentencing guidelines show that not to be true. Show me one person in
the US who was under the age of 18 that was executed after 1972. To save
you some time I'll let you know right now, you won't be able to, since
it hasn't happened. Yet you can try to find someone.
Use current information for a current debate. Comparing the 1940's and
the 1990's is ridiculous to me.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > > June 16, 1944: George Stinney Jr. (14) is executed in
> > > South Carolina's electric chair. He was only 5'-1" tall
> > > and weighed 95 pounds. A local paper reported that
> > > the guards had difficulties strapping him onto the chair and
> > > attaching the electrodes.
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Since 1990 only five countries including the United States have sentenced
> those convicted of crimes when they were minors to death. With appeals you
> are correct that 16- and 17-year-olds are likely to mature before we execute
> them.
>
> No minimum age: Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Montana, Pennsylvania, South
> Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Washington
>
> Minimum age 14: Arkansas
>
> Minimum age 15: Louisiana, Virginia
>
> Minimum age 16: Alabama, Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi,
> Missouri, Nevada, Oklahoma, Wyoming
>
> Minimum age 17: Georgia, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Texas
>
> Total: 25 states allow executions for juvenile offenses
> (Source: Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau)
>
> [I have no explanation for the reason the 11- and 13-year-olds in Jonesboro
> cannot be tried as adults according to news reports. There may have been
> changes in the law since the above data was compiled.]
>
> Damien Echols was 17 years old when he supposedly participated in the murder
> of three small boys. He was convicted in West Memphis, Arkansas, in a wave
> of hysteria over satanic cults with laughable evidence. In his case some
> prison guards were actually fired for permitting his daily sodomization by
> another prisoner on death row over a period of weeks. His prospects for
> eventual exoneration are quite guarded under current rules for appeals.
>
> Best, Terry
>
> "Lawyer - one trained to circumvent the law" - The Devil's Dictionary
>
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