Thursday, April 2, 2015

"Juveniles Don't Deserve Life Sentences" A.K.A: the death penalty

        We all can confess to making unwise decisions and mistakes, and along with that a punishment from our parents our maybe the school. The big difference in these cases are that these teens are actually murdering people which they deserve a far worst punishment because the act is larger. Unfortunately the only thing that we can think of is sentencing them to life in prison without parole no matter if they feel remorse or show that they have changed. In Gail Garinger's article "Juveniles Don't Deserve Life Sentences" she states that " As a former juvenile court judge, I have seen firsthand the enormous capacity of children to change and turn themselves around. The same malleability that makes them vulnerable to peer pressure also makes them promising candidates for rehabilitation." Murdering someone is one of the worst crimes one can commit, so although I  say that juveniles don't deserve life sentences I don't mean that they're punishment should be taken lightly, but at the same time being young you make a lot of mistakes and you are constantly learning from all the mistakes that you make. There should be a new kind of sentencing made for juveniles and also a mandatory rehabilitation center because although murder is a big crime, if we sentence them to life in not a juvenile detention center but an adult prison without parole then that is no different then giving them the death penalty in which I would prefer over sitting in jail for the rest of my life since I was in some cases 11. There are some cases where juveniles do not have any remorse and do not care at all about what they did or how it effected others , and those are the juveniles in which do not deserve a second chance or ever be eligible for parole.

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