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Fleischer raises important points, but the sloppy execution ruins any chance he might have at convincing those in the media to mend their ways.
Try this: until Tuesday, America was the only nation in the world with a functioning government that allowed the execution of those under 18.
This salient fact was observed by Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy. The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, which went into force in 2002 and forbade the execution of juveniles, has been signed by every nation in the world except the U.S. and Somalia. Somalia is in...
Moreover, our understanding of the nature of children and their level of responsibility for their actions has changed drastically over the past decades. Adolescents are fragile, growing things that have neither been genetically or socially fully integrated into their environment. It was partially a scientific evolution and the support of...
America: the land where execution is not only legal, but a luxury. It doesn’t matter how it gets done, or which reasons are found most compelling, but we must join the rest of the civilized world in banning the death penalty. Not executing those who commit crimes...