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...Harsh sentencing acts as a deterrent to kids who are considering committing crimes. Trying children as adults has coincided with lower rates of juvenile crimes. Light sentences don?t teach kids the lesson they need to learn: If you commit a terrible crime, you will spend a considerable part of your life in jail...
...Last week, while Kim Jong Nam was being detained in Japan, his father was toasting representatives of the European Commission who were on a rare visiting diplomatic mission. He used the occasion to commit to the country's moratorium on missile tests, signaling hope for renewed talks to thaw relations between the two Koreas. But just as the rest of the world was beginning to move beyond its conception of North Korea as a wacky, dysfunctional regime, along comes the son of the leader, using a fake passport to go sightseeing. Memo to the world: there is nothing normal about...
During this same period, 95 people—more than one out of every 100 men and women sentenced to death in the United States—have been exonerated after spending years on death row for crimes they did not commit...
...Earl Washington, a mentally retarded man who served 17 years in prison—much of it on death row—for a rape and murder he did not commit and who finally regained his freedom thanks to DNA testing...
...becomes why do we choose to avenge only murderers, while we rehabilitate other criminals? Some would argue that with government-mandated executions, we guarantee that they can never murder again. But this is not the way our criminal justice system operates; criminals are punished for crimes they have already committed, and not for those they may commit in the future. Of course, we fortunately do not generally employ this logic in our criminal justice system. Criminals must be rehabilitated so that they can operate within society; they should not be incapacitated by a brutal system of retribution...