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Agamemnon · 10-13-2004, 04:01 PM

I've seen a few comments about the death penalty sprout up in other debates, and when I ran across this article I thought I'd post it.

The story revolves around a 17 year old killer and whether he should be put to death or not. Really interesting to note the countries that do kill teenagers are basically the US and a bunch of authoritarian regimes. I'm not sure if any of the European states condone the death penalty.

Is the US behind the times when it comes to state-sanctioned executions? Or is the rest of the world that is allowing murderers/rapists to go under-punished?

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/A...artner=homepage

10-13-2004, 04:01 PM	#1
Agamemnon #1 Goaltender Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Calgary Exp:	I've seen a few comments about the death penalty sprout up in other debates, and when I ran across this article I thought I'd post it. The story revolves around a 17 year old killer and whether he should be put to death or not. Really interesting to note the countries that do kill teenagers are basically the US and a bunch of authoritarian regimes. I'm not sure if any of the European states condone the death penalty. Is the US behind the times when it comes to state-sanctioned executions? Or is the rest of the world that is allowing murderers/rapists to go under-punished? http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/A...artner=homepage