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Old 03-02-2005, 03:17 PM   #6 (permalink)
Beth
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Re: Supremes Strike Down Death Penalty for Juveniles

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Originally Posted by lady cop
i knew you would disagree my friend , but there may well be some interesting discussion here, death penalty questions with the additional factor of age.
I agree. I just don't like getting too involved with this type of discussion, I can get overly emotional in them. Simmons did a very bad thing, horrible, unspeakable, but I am not sure his mind was in the same mentality of a Bundy-type. I get conflicted over a sense of vengence and a sense of what I see as fair and just. I can better understand a seasoned and mature serial killer being executed than I can someone who commits crimes as a kid.

When I was a teenager, I had wierd ideas and distorted reality, nothing homicidal or harmful to others, but things that now embarrass me and make me realize that even though I appeared to be all there, I was a little messed up at times.

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