[Ecthelion]

You are assuming something. You are assuming that a 7-year old is not normally capable of murder unless he/she is mentally incompetent/retarted.

Why invent excuses for this piece of human debris?

The heart is deceitful and wicked, above all things. Wise words.

Maybe I'm just not in a gregarious mood today. Maybe I'm fed up with humanity. Probably both, but what I said still stands. If the child knew what it did was wrong and what the depth of the act was, (And I think it had an inkling, since it needed a 2x4 to finish the job) it should be destroyed as an affront to the human race. To take life without cause is to forfeit your own.

[stormyseas]

as far as forfeiting his life I will agree, I would make sure he never saw the street again. But death....It would take some convincing, he is seven and if we say yes to that, we are saying he is not salvageable as a human being....we move from here to our elderly. I just wish there were a quick fix it.

[baseballfanjm]

And I don't believe that a 7 year old, in general, should be regarded like an adult when handing out a sentence.

If we were to start executing kids of that age.... goodness, why must I even try and put up a protest for executing 7 year olds?