As some of you are aware... the Supreme Court ruled on tuesday that capital punishment for minors is unconstitutional. This comes less then 3 years from the ruling that capital punishment is unconstitutional for the mentally retarted.
Personally, this is great news for me. I think it's about time that we cut it out for minors.. I mean.. the only other country in the world that allows child execution under legal justice is Somalia..which is a joke, considering they don't have a goverment... Plus, our only justification of it before tuesday was the fact that we did not comply with the U.N. Code for child's rights.
I'm personally completely against capital punishment altogether. I think that spending your life in a tiny max security prison cell, with no one to talk to, barely any time to ever get out (food in max security is given right to your cell, and you are escorted for tiny amounts of time to play basktetball or something like that by yourself). Having to do that for the rest of your life, without any possibility of parole, in my opinion, is worth then just having it all end. Personally, it really isn't life.. because there is no quality of life.. if I was faced with that choice.. I'd choose death.
Plus, killing the killer really brings us down to the same level. Sure, it might not be horrid or violent, but we still end a life, which is the same thing, one way or another. So long story short, I think this is the start of the slow ending of majority of capital punishment.
It's about time anyways, there are barely any countries that support the practice.
Personally, this is great news for me. I think it's about time that we cut it out for minors.. I mean.. the only other country in the world that allows child execution under legal justice is Somalia..which is a joke, considering they don't have a goverment... Plus, our only justification of it before tuesday was the fact that we did not comply with the U.N. Code for child's rights.
I'm personally completely against capital punishment altogether. I think that spending your life in a tiny max security prison cell, with no one to talk to, barely any time to ever get out (food in max security is given right to your cell, and you are escorted for tiny amounts of time to play basktetball or something like that by yourself). Having to do that for the rest of your life, without any possibility of parole, in my opinion, is worth then just having it all end. Personally, it really isn't life.. because there is no quality of life.. if I was faced with that choice.. I'd choose death.
Plus, killing the killer really brings us down to the same level. Sure, it might not be horrid or violent, but we still end a life, which is the same thing, one way or another. So long story short, I think this is the start of the slow ending of majority of capital punishment.
It's about time anyways, there are barely any countries that support the practice.