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Young Murderers |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / YOUTH CRIME AND JUVENILE JUSTICE |
| Author: Ernest van den Haag |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1990 |
| Size: 927 Words, 5,364 Characters |
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A majority of Americans - more than 70 percent according to polls - favor the death penalty for murderers. However, many judges, lawyers (execution reduces the pool of clients) and, above all, law professors oppose it. Unable to persuade the voters, they tried for many years to get the Supreme Court to declare the death penalty unconstitutional. The court refused, but it did prohibit the execution of persons who were under sixteen when they murdered.
Abolitionists now want to raise the minimum age to eighteen - a two-year difference. (Some want to raise the age still further.) Abolitionists obviously want to apply the death penalty to as few murderers...
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... are other objections to the death penalty for juveniles: trials are costly; racial discrimination may come into play; execution is physically the same act as homicide. However, these are the same arguments used against the death penalty for people over twenty-one. They have been refuted so often and so completely by both data and argument that refuting them once more would be redundant. vbcrlf
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