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How about we forcibly emancipate them first.

For me this is a legal issue. Not a poor little 17 year old baby issue. If we want to execute them, classify them as adults first through a competency hearing, and then get on with it.

I don't think the Supreme Court addressed this did they? I know that you can be emancipated from your parents at 16. What happens if one of these emancipated 16 year olds commits murder. In that case, I say they are adults.

Part of my hangup to be honest was the whole alcohol thing. I was in the Army, 18 years old, with an infantry batt. and I couldn't get a beer, because I wasn't "mature enough" to do it. If we want to make the age 16, let's just do it. My big objection would be overcome if we did it for jury duty. If 16 year olds could serve jury duty, I think I would be cool with capital cases being brought against 16 year olds. My guess actually is that 16 year olds would be more inclined to fry em.

How about we forcibly emancipate them first.

If we want to execute them, classify them as adults first through a competency hearing, and then get on with it.

This is along the lines what I was thinking. I think the competency hearing would work. But I think the burden should be on the defense to prove that they did not know right from wrong. I don't think the Supreme Court addressed this did they? I know that you can be emancipated from your parents at 16. What happens if one of these emancipated 16 year olds commits murder. In that case, I say they are adults. Part of my hangup to be honest was the whole alcohol thing. I was in the Army, 18 years old, with an infantry batt. and I couldn't get a beer,

I was Navy in 84-89, we could drink in the base club, but obviously not in town. Has this since changed? because I wasn't "mature enough" to do it. If we want to make the age 16, let's just do it. My big objection would be overcome if we did it for jury duty. If 16 year olds could serve jury duty, I think I would be cool with capital cases being brought against 16 year olds. My guess actually is that 16 year olds would be more inclined to fry em.