[Quick1]

How many seventeen year old killers are there who will now go free?

I imagine it would be zero. All will remain in prison as punishment.

[JCEccles]

And murderers remain secure behind bars?

Remember Willy Horton?

There was another infamous child killer from Massachussets a few years back who was released from prison and put on a bus to Montana where he kidnapped and killed several more children.

Capital punishment the first time would have spared several innocent lives later.

[hopespringseternal]

I imagine it would be zero. All will remain in prison as punishment.

LOL. You should try keeping up with current events sometime.

If they are alive and kicking, eventually a liberal judge will get around to setting them free. It has happened before, it will happen again.