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This 7 page essay strongly favors the death penalty for juveniles. Specific examples are provided. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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(Dority). But the people parading outside were not sadists. They were merely displaying their agreement with the verdict and the sentence. They opened champagne bottles and set off fire crackers
not because they were simple minded but because they wanted it to be over (Dority).Families waited for justice and it was within arms reach. The people demonstrating along with numerous
experts said that Dodd was a "sadistic psychopathic pedophile incapable of empathy, that his greatest fear was being a nobody, and that he had successfully manipulated us into making
him a somebody via the sensational media coverage of his hanging (36)" The families and the people of Washington did get justice that night. But Dodd was not a
juvenile. Yet, had he been executed years earlier, perhaps others would not have had to suffer. Lives would have been saved. In the end, Dodds life was lost anyway. Perhaps
executing murderers at younger ages would serve not only as a deterrent and a form of retribution but also effective in creating a safer society. There is extreme opposition to
the use of the death penalty for minors, even among capital punishment supporters. The United States is in the minority, and one of only seven countries in the world, that
executes minors (Eckford). This may surprise some as the United States system of justice has always been looked up to compared with the barbaric practices we see in other countries.
It is true that our prisoners get cable television and other perks that go along with American life. Yet, as juvenile crime rises, something has to be done. Allowing the
death penalty for juvenile murderers is one solution. With the high rate of recidivism this is actually quite practical. A 1988 telephone survey conducted by the National Council on Crime
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