[Ellesu]

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http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/10546791.htm



http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/10546809.htm



http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/10546812.htm

[rightwinggoth]

A moratorium on death, how ironic.

[The Great RJ]

It wasn't so many years ago that a couple of 10 year olds in the UK lured a 3 year away from a shopping mall and bludgeoned him to death. These monsters have recently been released from state custody and I would bet will kill again. While I wouldn't advocate executing 10 year olds, society needs to protect itself from these predators regardless of their age.

[TheBattman]

I must be a cold-hearted jerk. I think the court is poised to go the WRONG direction in this case.

I firmly believe in holding criminals responsible for their crimes. If you are old enough to do the crime, you are old enough to do the time (or serve the sentence - even death). PERIOD.

[SC Swamp Fox]

South Carolina Ping

Add me to the ping list.Remove me from the ping list.

[aomagrat]

[PistolPaknMama]

“We don’t do that much for children in South Carolina,” the Columbia lawyer said. “The least we shouldn’t do is kill them.”

Fine, Lawyer Nettles. Let's do more for these deranged animals. Fix up your basement and let them all bunk downstairs with your valuables, sleeping children and wife upstairs. That should take them off the street at least until your family is found hacked to death. Register on FR and FReepmail me. I'll make a monetary contribution to help you out, with the stipulation that my money is used for funeral costs to bury your family first. Deal, Big Mouth?

[PistolPaknMama]

research has shown that the section of the brain that controls “mature decision-making” is not fully developed in 16- and 17-year-olds.

Yea ok whatever. And all the events that take place while the "mature decision making" is developing indelibly is imprinted on the brain when it is "matured." A 16 year old monster is a 25 year old monster is a 40 year old monster.

[PistolPaknMama]

“Most of what they do starts out as mischief, and it ends up a terrible, unplanned incident,”

Oh Heaven help us! I wasn't supposed to go into my parents bedroom EVER and one time I went in there and tried on all my mom's jewelry. I also "borrowed" my cousin's camera once and my brother and I took pictures of each other and used up all her film. She was really surprised when she got the film developed. That's mischief. We didn't go murder the neighbors afterwards either.

[cowboyway]

“Does that mean that if you’re 17 years 11 months and X-days old, you’re good, and when you go to bed that night and you become 18, you become bad? said Kathy Smith Carpenter of Fountain Inn.

This is not a compelling argument, however, age should not be a factor and each case should be tried on its own merits.

Zoe Sanders Nettles, chairperson of South Carolinians for Alternatives to the Execution of Children, attributes that statistic in part to the South’s history of “bloodlust.”

The South's history of bloodlust? I'm sure that this Nettle's person can't be from the South or else she has bought into the New England revisionist history of the War of Northern Aggression. Either way, she's way out to lunch.

“Most of what they do starts out as mischief, and it ends up a terrible, unplanned incident,” said Powers, a former Richland County sheriff’s deputy

Tell that to the victims of the drive by shootings or the guy who got gunned down in front of his store.

And even if it does start out as 'mischief', does that mean that society should turn a blind eye to the crime that was ultimately committed? By properly punishing these criminals we benifit society by removing these vermin from society, eliminating their dubious contribution to the gene pool (hopefully)and sending a message to other youths that some types of 'mischief' will not be tolerated.