Utter Shock of the Death Penalty

I am in utter shock when i read articles about the death penalty. Teens (16 and over) are put on death row. They are then killed when they are only 17 (well most of them). I don't understand. I was reading this article about one guy, 17, who murdered his girlfriend's parents. Yes this is a bad thing. He was put in jail. They interviewed him again at 26, and he realizes what he did was unforgivable. Yet he did state himself, that he is a much changed person 9 years later. Now he is in jail, where he should be.

I still am in shock that other places are allowing to do the death penalty of people who are not even legal adults. In Texas, there was this boy who was 16 and murdered a 75 and 74 year old man and woman. Along with some robberies. The next year, he was killed. He was only 17.

In a way my heart goes out to these teens. They must have been really screwed up, due to their environment, people around them, or just stress. Let me say that I am not condemning that it was okay for these kids to murder people. But they are still young. They are my age and my classmates ages. They could be the ages of your family relatives.

I think they should get rid of the death penalty in all. I would rather have them suffer in jail, thinking day after day what they did, instead of moving away from this world in an easy escape. These kids killed people and they should pay for it by sitting in a jail cell looking at the ceiling. I dont think they deserve to take the easy exit of life. Even with other cases of people older.

Thinking about the two forms of the death penalty: the gas chamber and the lethal injections. Why do we have gas chambers? Remember the Nazis? Anyone? California, at least stopped using this form of death. The last recent person killed by the gas chamber was a german nationalist. I still do not understand this use of Capital Punishment though.

I would assume either of these might lead to a very painful death.

will be continued....

Links of more information:

http://www.fdp.dk/uk/juve-art.htm (this is the 17 year old who murdered girlfriends parents)

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/juvenile-offenders-who-were-death-row#streibstats

http://www.deathpenalty.org/article.php?id=48