"Gunner" wrote in message
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On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 10:09:51 -0500, "Ed Huntress"
wrote:

"Gunner" wrote in message
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On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 13:38:39 -0500, "Ed Huntress"
wrote:


Old enough to do the crime, old enough to do the time (or lose your
life if you took another.) For the thumpers, it's "An eye for an
eye."

Darned right. If you put them in prison for life with no hope of
parole,
how
will they ever learn, anyway? It's better to put them to death and
really
impress them. That'll teach the punk.

--
Ed Huntress

Wont teach em anything.

However..the recidivism rate really drops off fast.

I really doubt if there is a whit of evidence to show that executing
minors,
or adults who committed murder when they were minors, has anything to do
with anything. If they were tried as adults and were thus liable to the
death penalty, they were liable to life in prison, or something close to
it.

ah...Ed? Recidivism? Or did I spell it improperly? The rate at
which criminals will get out and commit a second or more crimes.

Ok, so tell us how many juvenile offenders who were eligible for the death
penalty, but didn't get it, then wound up committing another crime. It must
be tough, since most of them are serving long prison terms.

--
Ed Huntress