Reggie Bautista wrote: > > Which is exactly the point I was originally trying to make regarding > execution of "children." If you have a country where executions are > legal, as they are in the U.S., then you should be able to decide on a > case-by-case basis, as the U.S. does, if someone who is under the age > of 18 is mature enough to have made an informed-enough decision, that > the punishment for that decision could be the death penalty. > > In other words, the Amnesty International report referred to execution > of "children," many of whom were 16 or 17 and were determined to be > adult-enough in other ways to be punished as an adult. By referring > to these criminals as "children," AI was using emotionally charged > language and obfuscating the facts.
The most striking thing about the article IMO wasn't the attempt to evoke emotion, but the stark comparison between the U.S. and the rest of the world. Why is it that most of the western world believes that capitol punishment is uncivilized, but we do not? Doug _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
