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Pending appeal, Woodward faces life in jail, with a chance of parole in 15 years. She may also apply for transfer to a British prison. And the child-care debate will no doubt continue to rage among people like the Eappens, a couple who hired an inexperienced teenager to look...
Why should the alleged commission of a heinous crime suddenly qualify a child for adult status, especially when such status actually seems to contribute to recidivism in cases where children are not sentenced to life without parole? Public opinion polls provide a clue: Sixty-eight percent of those surveyed in...
What is the point of spending $25,000-$30,000 a year to keep someone like now 17-year old Edward O'Brien in adult jail for the rest of his life with no hope of parole? It seems a needless waste of his life and of state resources when...
There has been no conclusive evidence that the death penalty deters crime. And why would it? The criminals society hopes to target are irrational and sick. Consequences, punishments, death versus life in prison without parole--these calculations are likely not made in the minds of the ill and the evil...
--Edward O'Brien, father of Edward S. O'Brien, 15. The yesterday O'Brien was convicted of murdering his best friend's mother and was sntenced to life imprisonment without parole.