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In reply to the discussion: I never thought I would feel this way, but I think they should just parole her and let her go. [View all]dawg day
(7,947 posts)30. In my state, two teen girls have been sentenced to death
One sentence was commuted eventually.
The other just (now 56) was told that the state would no longer move for execution. (After 35 years on death row, she's apparently no longer mentally capable of "understanding."
I don't think van Houten should have been executed particularly, but it is interesting how unequally the "teen death penalty" is applied:
From "The Juvenile Death Penalty: In the Best Interests of
the Child?" Suzanne D. Strater
By the 1990s, approximately 287 juveniles had been executed for
criminal offenses in the United States.45 Nearly two-thirds of the
juvenile executions took place in the South.46 All but nine of the
adolescents executed were male. 47 Furthermore, three-fourths of the
juveniles executed were people of color.48 Overwhelmingly, their
victims were white.
https://lawecommons.luc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1568&context=luclj
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I never thought I would feel this way, but I think they should just parole her and let her go. [View all]
BigDemVoter
Jan 2019
OP
I don't feel strongly about releasing her, but I think the LaBianca family ought to be heard
hlthe2b
Jan 2019
#2
Why not just kill people? Why not sanction states murdering their own citizens?
Maru Kitteh
Jan 2019
#33
I agree that after so many years, she should be paroled. A different person now. nt
USALiberal
Jan 2019
#16