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I don't think that they should. I feel like juveniles' brains aren't fully developed.
I'm not saying they don't know what they're doing, but I do think that they don't have
an adult brain yet.
There are certainly aspects of criminal justice that require punishment if only so we don't,
you know, dissolve into chaos and that the families of the people who have been victimized
feel closure. In that sense, I don't think necessarily that a fourteen year-old should
be let out at eighteen, but certainly the death penalty is unwarranted as is life-long detention.
People are young and so they make a lot of mistakes, and I think to penalize someone
and take their life is probably a little too dramatic.
That seems like a more short-term solution. It doesn't really get to some of the root causes.
It doesn't give them the chance to fix whatever problems they have.
I think in general the concept of the death penalty and life in prison I'm not against,
there just are people who don't deserve to be a part of society. A serial killer, for example, for sure.
It's a case by case thing. Obviously there are some kids who, you know, do know what
they're doing, but, you know, in that case they should just be given prison time, and
I think in general if it's a younger kid then I believe it should be rehabilitation.
Hopefully we're still at the point where the point of prison is rehabilitation. I don't
know if we've gone past that. I'm not quite sure if that's really the point anymore, but
that's what I like to think.
These are correctional facilities and that you just put criminals in an environment where
its just fostering more hatred and more anger and violence.
The American prison system is screwed up enough, just leave them in there it's worst than death
almost. You know, it's overcrowded, it's cruel, it's horrible.
Life without parole I really feel is advisable only in kind of the most extreme situations
like serial killer, somebody who's been doing something their whole life. I do think that,
kind of, if this is the spectrum, rehabilitation can work all the way up to here if there's
enough time and enough effort and the right people to do it.