03/02/05
The Supreme Court determines children committing crimes for which the death
penalty was being applied, can not be enforced.
America joins the rest of the world in this determination.

The arguments for such are rather untenable.

Many soldiers, policemen, and others who kill in the line of "work" have
difficulty dealing with what has occurred. Children obviously have no
concept of what death truly is. Most adults have difficulty accepting death,
in general, but the finality of it rarely "strikes" someone until the very
end.

Compare it to the parents in Florida, attempting to keep their grown and
married "child" alive, apparently against her former wishes, and her
husband.
Compare it with the parents of a premature or severely deformed child, who
will never be able to function (literally), or is kept alive for a few hours
or days, so new parents have a chance to adjust to the reality of the loss,
and one can find the intense desire for life humans have. If there is the
desire for those afflicted, how can there be no desire and compassion for
those gone wrong?

There must be a balance somewhere.

Having taken a life as a child, is it then growing into age [insert "label"
adult] and older intelligence that then makes one responsible for some
terrible crime, when the child had no concept or "reality" of what it was
doing? There are no "sciences" which explain this activity in children.
Perhaps its time to really apply ourselves to this problem.

When an adult keeps someone from their ultimate end, subjecting them to
unknowable hurt, pain or suffering, would this not also be a heinous act?
Yet society accepts this, the demand of the parent for a bit of time,
outweighs the pain or suffering of the child.

There are those who would say, "You have not lost someone to that type of
crime. You don't understand."
Perhaps they are right, I do not understand it in that "light", though I
have lost numerous members of my own family.
Yet, on the other hand, perhaps they should stand back, and try to remember
what life was about before the tragedy. Where did that understanding go?

REMEMBER THE SUPREME COURT WRIT IS IN, as either the demand for Writ or
original action, though no present case assignment, if anyone cares to
submit petitions in support, or, briefs.

- posted by Maurice @ Wednesday, March 02, 2005