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Some argue that children mature enough to murder are mature enough to be punished for it. "I think when my kids were 15 or 16 they knew better than to kill someone," says Miriam Shehane, president of Victims of Crime and Leniency (VOCAL), a victims'-rights group based in Montgomery, Ala. "If someone does adult crime, they are acting as adults, and they have to take responsibility." Shehane contends that capital punishment is not only for those with long legacies of criminality but also for anyone, teens included, who commits singularly horrific crimes...
...year-old criminal has been out of the house for 10 years. He's had time to form a new life. Almost all teenage offenders are still living at home. The damage done to them emotionally and mentally is not so far removed. The abuse was last night." Counters VOCAL's Shehane: "We have to go beyond rationalizing violent, heinous crime by fluffing it off to 'Oh, he had a bad upbringing...
ROCK OF AGES Can old men make new music? The Grammy nominators seem to think so. The five codgers competing for best rock vocal boast an average age of 51. Bob Dylan received his first Grammy nomination before four of the five female nominees were born. The women's division skews significantly younger and includes the barely legal Fiona Apple...
DIED. MAE QUESTEL, 89, helium-toned actress who gave voice to the coyly sexy Betty Boop and the coarsely sexless Olive Oyl; in New York City. Over the years, Questel displayed vocal versatility as the voice of Casper the Friendly Ghost, Winky Dink and Swee'Pea. Though she was featured in over 1,900 films, Questel once complained that she could walk down a New York City street without being recognized. In one of her last film roles, she played a caricature of a different sort, Woody Allen's mother in the movie New York Stories...
With such a young team along side him this year, however, Storey realized that he can no longer afford such a silent luxury and has become one of the teams most vocal leaders...