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dblaney
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Supreme Court Rules Against Executing Minors
#3855933 - 03/02/05 05:56 AM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
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It's about time something was done, if you ask me. The entire point of a juvenille justice system is to prevent juvenilles from being treated as adults, for a variety of reasons.
Yes, this does mean that the 17-year old Malvo sniper will not be executed. Of course, he will serve several consecutive life sentences, so I'm not sure if that's much better.
What do you think?
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Re: Supreme Court Rules Against Executing Minors [Re: dblaney]
#3856182 - 03/02/05 07:55 AM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
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Well seeing as how I am entirely against capital punishment...this is a good step forward for you guys!
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Re: Supreme Court Rules Against Executing Minors [Re: dblaney]
#3856194 - 03/02/05 07:58 AM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
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I'm pro capital punishment but the idea that you can put a minor in the electric chair but that same "man" can't vote, drink alcohol or enjoy the perks (for better or for worse) of being an adult is laughable.
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Re: Supreme Court Rules Against Executing Minors [Re: dblaney]
#3856245 - 03/02/05 08:20 AM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
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"Many that live deserve death, and some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them...?
Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise can not see all ends."
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Re: Supreme Court Rules Against Executing Minors [Re: Somaton]
#3856259 - 03/02/05 08:25 AM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
"Many that live deserve death, and some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them...?
Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise can not see all ends."
why are you quoting J.R.R. Tolkien?
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Re: Supreme Court Rules Against Executing Minors [Re: Innvertigo]
#3856322 - 03/02/05 08:42 AM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
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Becasue I think the quote has some value in this thread. And Tolkien put my thoughts in to better words than I ever could.
Anything else?
Edited by Somaton (03/02/05 08:43 AM)
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Re: Supreme Court Rules Against Executing Minors [Re: Somaton]
#3856366 - 03/02/05 08:54 AM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
Becasue I think the quote has some value in this thread
debatable...
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Re: Supreme Court Rules Against Executing Minors [Re: dblaney]
#3856426 - 03/02/05 09:11 AM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
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And yet again The Supremes have shown they have no conception of their proper place in the government of the United States.
Their purpose is to determine whether laws passed by the legislature are constitutional or unconstitutional. In this ruling as in several other recent rulings they have ignored the Constitution entirely, instead basing their decision on the personal prejudices of a slim majority of justices and citing the decisions of legislatures of foreign countries as "justification".
As it happens, I personally believe that murderers under a certain age should probably not be executed, but that is not the point. The point is that -- once again -- SCOTUS has overstepped their authority. This court lost its credibility several rulings ago and digs itself deeper into a hole with each succeeding attempt to legislate from the bench.
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Re: Supreme Court Rules Against Executing Minors [Re: Phred]
#3856733 - 03/02/05 10:43 AM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
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If a ruler is going to have someone executed, he should perform the execution himself.
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Re: Supreme Court Rules Against Executing Minors [Re: SWEDEN]
#3856818 - 03/02/05 10:58 AM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
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what about letting the family of the person murdered do it.
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Re: Supreme Court Rules Against Executing Minors [Re: Innvertigo]
#3856959 - 03/02/05 11:26 AM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
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What if they execute the wrong guy? Does that guy's family get to execute the family that executed him?
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Re: Supreme Court Rules Against Executing Minors [Re: trendal]
#3857035 - 03/02/05 11:43 AM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
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Taking away someone's life in this existance is the most abominable form of rape. It violates their absolutely fundamental right to exist. It also removes their chance at redemption and to me has always seemed a hollow form of justice.
Whether it's a serial killer, a drunk driver, war or state sanctioned executions it is still a gross hubris to deny anyone their future. Who are we to make such judgements? If by some consensus we deem someone incorrigible we are still only human and fallible and it is our duty to err on the side of caution and compassion.
And ultimately that is what it is about. Less about some percieved justice in killing someone as "punishment" for a crime and more about what sort of reflection our society casts. I personally abhor murder, as most people do and when it comes down to it, just because a guard in a uniform is the one flipping the switch or a state salaried doctor is the one doing the injection, it's still murder. And it's not right.
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Re: Supreme Court Rules Against Executing Minors [Re: unbeliever]
#3857068 - 03/02/05 11:50 AM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
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My stance is simple: what if a mistake is made?
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Re: Supreme Court Rules Against Executing Minors [Re: trendal]
#3857110 - 03/02/05 12:04 PM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
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trendal said: My stance is simple: what if a mistake is made?
That's definitely a big part of it. However I go beyond that and even assuming we could know without any doubt, reasonable or otherwise, that someone had done something that currently is considered a capital crime.. I still don't support a state sanctioned murder of that person.
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Re: Supreme Court Rules Against Executing Minors [Re: unbeliever]
#3857125 - 03/02/05 12:11 PM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
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I agree with you completely, and I still wouldn't support capital punishment even if it was ensured that no mistake could be made (which isn't possible). I don't like basing my arguments on personal feelings though, so I stick to the one that I can defend: what happens when you execute an innocent person?
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Re: Supreme Court Rules Against Executing Minors [Re: trendal]
#3857319 - 03/02/05 01:03 PM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
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What if they execute the wrong guy? Does that guy's family get to execute the family that executed him
sure, why not.
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Re: Supreme Court Rules Against Executing Minors [Re: Innvertigo]
#3857439 - 03/02/05 01:36 PM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
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Case by case basis. "One law to rule them all" doesn't work (J.R.R. Tolkien was mentioned). Beyond that it most certainly has to be done case by basis, people's motivations and the consequences of them aren't omnipresent. Mentality, background, intelligence, and reasoning of the individual in question is a better structure for evaluation and the punishment thereof.
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Re: Supreme Court Rules Against Executing Minors [Re: Phred]
#3857466 - 03/02/05 01:42 PM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
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Phred said: And yet again The Supremes have shown they have no conception of their proper place in the government of the United States.
Their purpose is to determine whether laws passed by the legislature are constitutional or unconstitutional. In this ruling as in several other recent rulings they have ignored the Constitution entirely, instead basing their decision on the personal prejudices of a slim majority of justices and citing the decisions of legislatures of foreign countries as "justification".
As it happens, I personally believe that murderers under a certain age should probably not be executed, but that is not the point. The point is that -- once again -- SCOTUS has overstepped their authority. This court lost its credibility several rulings ago and digs itself deeper into a hole with each succeeding attempt to legislate from the bench.
Phred
Isn't there an amendment banning "cruel and unusual punishment"? I would think this would fall under that category.
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Re: Supreme Court Rules Against Executing Minors [Re: unbeliever]
#3857524 - 03/02/05 01:58 PM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
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I totally with what you're saying. There's no justification for eye-for-an-eye punishment.
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Re: Supreme Court Rules Against Executing Minors [Re: moog]
#3857643 - 03/02/05 02:22 PM (19 years, 1 month ago) |
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I see absolutly nothing wrong with capital punishment, but perhaps on a case by case basis deprnding on the situation.
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