This Pissed Me Off

It's not about whether they knew right from wrong. They clearly did. It's about whether it's ethical to NEVER give someone a chance of release for something terrible they did while the decision making part of their brain is still under development. Many people get released from prison after 20 years for murder, for actions they made after their brains had fully developed. But these children are significantly more capable and more likely to actually rehabilitate, while adults who are less likely to change get to be released. So it's blatant hypocrisy and unethical. Locking up children for life needs to be reevaluated and that's the point of the movie and I very much agree with it. It's not about whether the crimes were wrong, they easily were. And they used that one man (I forget his name) as an example of how releasing these people eventually can actually be GOOD for society, as the one man has now dedicated himself to preventing others from doing what he did and making the world a better place. Why would we want to keep those people locked up once they've served a fair sentence for their crime? Life without parole as a teenager is not a fair sentence.

The forensic pathologist who first checked the stab wounds said there were two different knife patterns on the body, one with a jagged knife, one with a smooth surface knife, and with different angles, meaning there probably were two different hands going at it. I agree the parents' denial is unnerving.

Even if we accept the argument that minors should be given the opportunity for a second chance (due to their underdeveloped ability to rationalize) then they must STILL prove they are no longer a threat.

That's the problem with the two teens who killed their female classmate. They just came off as uber creepy and psychologically broken. The way they planned that murder well in advance, the way they carried it out and the way they were talking about it many years later was very disturbing.

You can't let those guys out because they simply aren't safe and they aren't fit to function in normal society. The fact that they happened to commit their "big mistake" at age 16 instead of 18 or 29 is immaterial. They were broken machines from the start and it's doubtful anything will change that.

The black guy who got roped into joining the Bloods (or Crips - can't remember) was different. He was a better example of bad circumstances (heat of the moment crime in a bad environment) combining with an undeveloped thought process. And of course he was released as an adult.

You were not raped as a xhild like jacob was and molested by his mother as well.

I just came here because I was thinking the same thing. That kid's parents' attitude explain exactly why he turned out the way he did.

Listening to him bleat on about how he's a different person now? And his parents talking about what a nice person he is?

That kid not only needs to be in prison he needs to have the living sh it kicked out of him daily for murdering an innocent girl and then having the balls to act like he's a different person a few years later.

I knew one professional SJW who volunteered to minister to the needs of those in the state maximum security penitentiary. Among these were convicts who had been sentenced to very long terms or life for vicious murders. He was operating on the presupposition or belief that convicts were essentially like anyone else and that they merely needed the right influences to get them back on the right track. Among the opinions he was so eager to share was the idea that many of these should have their sentences cut short and be released back into society.

So, after his first sojourn into the lion's den, he was asked how it went. He reacted positively, giving a number of results from his interactions with the convicts.

Someone asked him about a certain convict who had been sentenced for a particularly gruesome and widely publicized rape, disfigurement, and murder of a young woman. He was asked whether he had dealt with this particular convict and what his impressions were in view of his optimistic outlook for the rehabilitation of convicts. He said that he had, then stopped and thought for a while and then said, "I think that there are some exceptions."

That is my thought also, but my impression is that if someone goes out of their way to needlessly end someone else's life, they have by that act of viciousness classified themselves as a psychopath and there is little chance for a cure for that particular disease. Therefore any and all of these are exceptions.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/25/william-spengler-set-trap_n_2362433.html

William Spengler killed three people that day, one, his sister who provided a home for him, and two volunteer firefighters. He also shot two others who suffered bullet wounds, wounds that are known for causing permanent and pain-producing nerve damage. It's not like a mosquito bite and no one ever factors that into the equation.

So, why was this psychopathic killer released after he had killed his own aged grandmother with a hammer? Anyone have an answer to that?