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1. tombert · 1790831351 · focus · HN ↗

   Oh yeah, I read about this.

   I'm pretty against capital punishment in general, so take that for what it is, but executing someone for something they did when they were eighteen really bothers me.

   I've never been a violent person but I do know that I was even more of an idiot then than I am now.

   1. sippingabonedry · 1790831581 · focus · HN ↗

      > for something they did when they were eighteen really bothers me

      She lured a classmate into the woods, slit her throat with a box cutter after torturing her for half an hour, bashed her skull open with a rock for good measure, then brought a piece of her skull to school the next day.

      > I was even more of an idiot then than I am now

      Do you think the above should be chalked up as normal childhood indiscretion?

      1. tombert · 1790832165 · focus · HN ↗

         > Do you think the above should be chalked up as normal childhood indiscretion?

         I didn't say there shouldn't be consequences. I just think that executing someone who committed a crime when they were effectively a child is kind of upsetting. I do not see how you extrapolated that I think it's "normal childhood indiscretion" out of what I said.

         1. hakucho · 1790929203 · focus · HN ↗

            At 18 you know better than taking a class mate to the jungle, slit the throat and bring the skull to the class. If your gripe is about punishment its a different thing, saying that a person did the crime at 18 somehow does not count as a crime is misguided at best.

            1. tombert · 1790937805 · focus · HN ↗

               Where did I say it didn’t count as a crime? Of course it’s a crime, and of course there should be consequences. I just have some uneasiness about killing people when they were still basically children, but as I said I am pretty anti-capital-punishment regardless.

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