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Not American, but the Wikipedia entry on the incident suggests that the two aren't in any way comparable. At the same time, sentencing a 15-year old kid (who h
by jeswin 6y ago
Not American, but the Wikipedia entry on the incident suggests that the two aren't in any way comparable.
At the same time, sentencing a 15-year old kid (who hasn't even committed murder) to life in prison and not reconsidering it so far into the 21st century - that's cruel and unusual punishment. Boggles my mind.
- smcl 6y agoI'm not sure why people are having a hard time with this one. But let's try it this way - switch the positions of the 17 year old white kid and the 15 year old black kid. Do you believe the outcomes would be the same? Do you think the black kid would get bailed after killing two people and then have (in addition to support among various gun rights groups) numerous people on HN hand-wringing and explaining that technically killing someone is actually not a crime in every circumstance? No, we'd see pics of the black kid presented as menacing, everyone would talk about him as a "young man" instead of "a little boy", any and all indiscretions he'd committed would be dug out and published everywhere and ultimately used against him. Of course we're dealing with hypotheticals so people will play dumb and either pretend I'm being absurd or just say they'd treat both the same because that's the easy way out. But I think deep down we all know the truth.