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To: csvset
His 15-year-old brother…  is potentially facing the death penalty.

No, he is not.

  https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/death_penalty

  "the Supreme Court invalidated the death penalty for all juvenile offenders"

17 posted on 04/02/2015 4:22:54 AM PDT by greedo
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To: greedo

I was thinking the same thing. The reporter is either:

a) ignorant of case law regarding the death penalty, or
b) lying to generate sympathy for the little thug.

I’m voting “b”


21 posted on 04/02/2015 4:36:45 AM PDT by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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To: greedo

do you have to fail an IQ test to be a “journalist” there days?


26 posted on 04/02/2015 5:14:38 AM PDT by gr8eman (Don't waste your energy trying to understand commies. Use it to defeat them!)
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