A eight year old is to be tried by Conservative laws as an adult… Today we see that perhaps he was coerced into his confession..
WDEL devoted a portion of the Rick Jensen show on this topic…
Questions that occurred to me during the playing of the videotape of the confession.
!) Will trying the 8 year old as an adult, help either of the two victims cope with what has happened?
2) Will trying the 8 year old as an adult, keep him from repeating his crime?
3) Will trying the 8 year old as an adult, serve as a disincentive for other 8 year olds who are thinking of attempting the same crime?
When all these questions get asked, the answers one gets make the whole thing seem silly.
(He is 8 years old.)
Obviously, when you look at who will benefit from trying this child as an adult……. this is being done solely for the benefit of the prosecutors, just so they can brag “Look how tough I am.., I even sent an eight year old to the electric chair….”
Well, where I come from…….to ramrod an 8 year old boy for the sole benefit of a prosecutor…. seems to demean the world’s definition of the word “justice’.
kavips 
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November 20, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Duffy
We have “conservative” laws now? Are they in separate law books from “liberal” ones? How do you decide which are which?
There is only one type of law. American law. Like it or not. Look, you guys won the election. Can you stop the divisiveness? Argue it’s being misapplied but don’t tell me it’s a “conservative” law. What does the statute say?
“Forthwith 8 year olds who kill people shall go to the electric chair thus helping Conservative lawmakers look good when re-election rolls around.”
I sincerely doubt it.
The point of trying him as an adult is not to kill him but rather to keep him in juvenile detention until he’s 18 or 21 or whatever.
This kid probably won’t benefit from incarceration. If I had to guess he is either mentally/emotional disturb or suffered some serious abuse by someone. Putting him in stir is not the answer here. Focus on that instead of finding yet another reason to bash conservatives. Please.
November 20, 2008 at 9:19 pm
h.
Soon, all law will be liberal law as activist judges use personal and moral beliefs to interpret the Constitution. Say goodbye to the Republic as we know it.
November 21, 2008 at 5:52 am
kavips
And say hello to the Republic as the founding fathers envisioned it…
Goodbye Cheney.
November 21, 2008 at 5:55 am
kavips
Duffy, I was wondering if anyone would get a rise out of that one… lol…..
But there ARE laws on the books that most would conclude are more conservative than warrant at this time… Just as some laws were too liberal for their time during the seventies….