Youth Affenders

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their juvenile threats to society, this new “love,” so it is termed consists of lowering the age so that juveniles as young as fourteen can be sentenced as adults (Hetter). This recently instated law, I feel should be Federal law as opposed to state law. The youth these days have no direction, no ambition, and no feelings. As John Firman of the International Association of Chiefs of Police says, “Police officers are encountering more kids with no hope, no fear, no rules, and no life expectancy; the only solution is imprisonment or death; it’ll set an example to the rest”(Edmonds).
Juveniles should receive capitol punishment, they should be imprisoned with adults so that maybe, just maybe we can get to the ones that still have a chance and make a difference for them as well as us. In San Antonio, Texas, in 1995 Victoria Dalton a thirteen year old girl, is convicted of smothering two small children left in her care. When interrogated and asked why and how could she do such a thing, her reply was, “They just wouldn’t shut up!”. Apparently Victoria suffers from migraine headaches, and the two children had pushed her pass her limit. Later during her arrainement, Victoria stated to the judge that she was only thirteen and wondered why she couldn’t go home yet (Edmonds).
Fifteen hundred miles away, in Portland, Oregon Brandon Roses ten is found guilty of murdering his five-year-old sister because he claimed that she was annoying him. Later investigators found out that Brandon’s father had told him that killing his sister was “OK”, because he was too young to be put in jail. Another investigation is currently under way (Edmonds). In Austin, Texas, two young men Efrain Perez and Raul Villareal were both seventeen in June of 1993. As part of Villareal’s gang initiation, the boys spent the evening in an open field drinking and fighting among themselves. However shortly before midnight two girls one sixteen and the o...