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...September of Charles Rumbaugh Jr., who robbed and killed an Amarillo jeweller in 1975 at the tender age of 17. Rumbaugh's death by lethal injection was the first execution since 1964 of someone sentenced as a minor. Last month, Rumbaugh was succeeded by South Carolina's Terry Roach, who was convicted--also at the age of 17--for criminal sexual assault and two counts of murder. Thirty-one other death-row convicts await capital punishment for crimes committed before the age of legal maturity. Sixteen of them are white, 15 are Black, and two-thirds are in the South...
...when the killer is a child, someone who is defined by the law as irresponsible, and who is presumably too immature to vote or to enter into a contract or to purchase alcohol and tobacco. Additionally, many of the criminals who have been executed recently have been mentally retarded--Roach, for instance, had an IQ of only 76. Certainly, a mentally impaired individual cannot make the sort of moral judgements assumed by the concept of capital punishment. The position is inconsistent and arbitrary, period. It also forgets that the young are the most likely to be rehabilitated; if anyone ought...
Last summer, Rosegrant worked as a live-in counselor for teenagers at Roosevelt Towers, an East Cambridge low-income housing project. Although she says she lived in roach-infested quarters and worked 60 to 80 hour weeks. Rosegrant adds that much of the summer was spoat reading books with her six girls, taking them berry picking and on camping trips...
Five panelist--Jackie Cooke, a graduate student in government; Jeffrey Ferguson '85 of Leverett House, Ronald Roach '85 of Quincy House, Johnson and government graduate student Sheree Queen-Bryant-presented their views of what the Black intellectual could glean from Cruse...
Saying that Cruse feels that Black leaders have rejected their foundations in pursuing the goals of other people, Roach said that there are three ways in which Blacks can remedy this problem...