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To be honest, what he did was surely terrible, but what I find the most disgusting about the sentencing is that they are voting to kill someone who was a teenager when he committed the crime. I don't think an adolescent should be able to be sentenced to death no matter how heinous and despicable their actions.

Honestly, I am against the death penalty, but I don't think the guy being 19 makes him less responsible. At 19 years old, I had the moral bearing to understand how fucking wrong it is to blow 8 year olds. His age isn't a factor for me -- I just don't think the government should have the right to kill people unless they pose an immediate threat that can't be safely contained in another manner.

Being 19 does absolutely alter things. Talking about being less or more responsible for actions is kind of useless, I think, because it's arbitrary and circumstantial. But brains are not done developing long past teens (closer to early to mid twenties, iirc), and connections between consequence and action, susceptibility to negative influences, less resilience to impulses - these are all things that affect teens because their brains just aren't done cooking yet.

http://www.mprnews.org/story/2012/11/15/daily-circuit-juvenile-offenders-brain-development

If it were for a lesser crime, I might agree with you (such as drunk driving), but this guy planned to bomb a fucking marathon and killed an 8 year old.

I'm sorry, but it's insulting to every 19 year old in the country to pretend that they don't understand right from wrong at this level.

No, gut reactions to the crime don't change the psychology. Yes, he did something horrible that your average, American, university educated teenager would be ethically opposed to. But no matter to what, a 19-year-old is still way more vulnerable to negative influence, way more impulsive, and way less able to connect consequence to action than someone with a fully developed brain. (and for the record, it's not like this action happened independent of any of that, with his radicalized brother who was acting as the primary male adult figure in his life).

An adolescent's brain just isn't an adult brain, and makes adolescents a lot more prone to certain types of crimes that they probably wouldn't have done if they were adults. That just can't be discounted, no matter how many other upstanding teenagers there are in the world.

Most of us at 19 are able not to plant bombs and murder people though.

Sometimes it's best to put a mad dogs down.

Are you channeling somebody's aged aunt on Facebook right now?

Listen. This isn't a mad dog. It's a human being.

Is it a good thing for the state to kill human beings who are no longer threats to us? Because how is this "mad dog" going to do anything at all to the American public?

We're killing a 21 year old to, I don't know, magically reverse the bombing? While simultaneously making him a young martyr for the sort of people into this kind of thing? Such punishment very justice

Edited 2015-05-16 03:06 (UTC)

Arrr, nope. Bet prison is full itself. Death to all late comer.

Even aside from the neurological differences, just the vast differences in life experience of an 19-year old versus say, a 40-year old, creates a different level of culpability.

to blow 8 year olds

I think you accidentally a word, but that's pretty wrong (and illegal) as well...

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