Too Immature for the Death Penalty?
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Brain researchers have a new argument against executing teenagers: they are not yet wired for adult decision making.
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In the months since a 14-year-old boy was found shot to death with a state senator's handgun at his side, questions have swirled about whether his death was a suicide, homicide or some sort of terrible accident.
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A plea to declare capital punishment for juvenile offenders unconstitutional received a skeptical hearing at the Supreme Court yesterday, as one of two justices likely to be pivotal to the outcome voiced repeated doubts.
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He is credited with victory. Which always begs the question of how the losers are supposed to feel. Are they sinners ... heathens ... infidels? Inadequate at prayer? Or just lacking in defense?
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I don't buy the "I was traumatized as a child in Bosnia" excuse.
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I&#39;m sure Montrose County Coroner Mark Young had good intentions when he ruled that William Rardin&#39;s death was a homicide, but Young has caused more harm than good.
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On issues such as the juvenile death penalty, the court considers whether it should weigh international opinion.
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Most people think that juries are more likely than judges to let defendants off the hook. The conventional wisdom, however, may be dead wrong
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Remarks from participants and spectators as the Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of executing people who were age 16 or 17 when they committed crimes.
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida  - Death penalty critics on Thursday asked the Florida Supreme Court to halt lethal injections after a convicted killer took 34 minutes to die from the procedure and witnesses said he appeared to suffer.
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KRT) - Jannes Zimmermann, a serious-minded 19-year-old, wrote a letter to his draft board saying that the idea of being trained to kill another human being was morally repugnant.
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The slayings were shocking enough by themselves: In February, an out-of-work mechanic allegedly abducted, raped and killed an 11-year-old girl. In August, six people were bludgeoned to death in what was believed to be a dispute over a video game. The news that followed arrests in both cases was even more alarming: The accused murderers had recently violated probation and probably shouldn't have been on the street.
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The court appeared deeply divided over whether the death penalty for acts committed while a juvenile should be seen as "cruel and unusual punishment."
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A report into the death of the youngest person to die in custody demands a national review of the use of restraints.
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Suppose a person of reasonable mental competence decides, after carefully weighing the available options and consulting with those around him, that life is no longer worth living.  Should that person have the legal right to end their own life?  Suicide (and assisting suicide) is presently illegal in most western nations, a fact which only serves to make it slightly difficult for suicidal people to carry out their wish.  I propose a different approach - in fact, an opposite approach.  I propose that anyone who honestly wishes to terminate their own life should be provided with the means to do so humanely, reminiscent of (though perhaps more gentle than) the infamous suicide booths popularized by Futurama.
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WASHINGTON - The number of people sentenced to death reached a 30-year low in 2003, when the Death Row population fell for the third year in a row, signaling the continuation of a slow trend away from state- and federally ordered executions, according to
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It is hard to think of a case in which a murderer should become a medical doctor. Murder and medical practice are simply incompatible.