Author Topic: Seventeen...Going on Eighteen... (Read 802 times)

midnight Target · « **Reply #30 on:** July 15, 2006, 12:45:28 PM »

Sounds like a fair sentence.

Life without parole would be wrong for a 17 year old. How many of us are the same person we were at 17?

No one 25 or under need reply.

Angus · « **Reply #31 on:** July 15, 2006, 12:50:45 PM »

17 is a kid. 17 years olds do stupid things all the time.
With 17 years invested, yet not more, there is enough lifetime to do remedy.
A 17 years old normally does not have something really coldly planned.

Of course there are exceptions...Like Columbine. Uhm, what was done to those kids?
(That case, I'd vote for a firing squad)

Sandman · « **Reply #32 on:** July 15, 2006, 12:52:06 PM »

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Originally posted by Angus

Of course there are exceptions...Like Columbine. Uhm, what was done to those kids?
(That case, I'd vote for a firing squad)

They did themselves at the end.

AquaShrimp · « **Reply #33 on:** July 15, 2006, 01:00:09 PM »

I'm glad we have so many psychologists here.

A persons personality usually gets cemented around 17-18 years old. This kid is displaying criminal, anti-social behavior. For the sake of the rest of society, this kid needs to be locked away. Maybe it would be possible to rehabilitate him. But those resources aren't going to be applied to him now.

Angus · « **Reply #34 on:** July 15, 2006, 01:15:08 PM »

Rehabilitation could go hand in hand with hard labour

Anyway, I don't belive in such walking free, just to make it clear.