[squirrely girl]

hoosier - i'm pretty sure he was 14 (dover tennessee is 'bout 15 minutes from my house.) unfortunately, tennessee wasn't one of the states that allowed execution of individuals who were minors when they committed their crime anyways

- also, a teen pulled a loaded gun pulled on two police in clarksville that same day when they went to serve a truancy order...lovely

i'm not a huge fan of the death penalty, i think that in most scenarios it is applied inequitably. there are MANY flaws with it. HOWEVER - i think the part that gets to me with this supreme court decision is that it ONLY affects 70something minors/people who were minors when they did the crime

i don't have stats for you all, but i'm hard pressed to believe that there aren't hundreds or thousands of minors that kill people every year. so what made the cases of these 70 so heinous that a jury felt the necessity to dole out the DP to them. what sets them apart. it's pretty much understood that people don't magically change the day they turn 18 (it's a truly arbitrary number).

what makes 17 year old john doe any different that 18 year old john doe? nothing.