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Cruel And Unusual Punishment Analysis

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It’s not every day you see young adolescents committing murder and heinous crimes, but unfortunately there are days when a young teen walks in the courtroom with handcuffs ready to hear their trial, punishment and sentencing. It is hard to understand how anyone can have these thoughts about brutal, horrifying crimes, but it’s even harder to understand how anyone can oppose punishment for these criminals just because of their age. “On June 25, 2012, the Supreme Court ruled that juveniles who committed murder could not be sentenced to life in prison because it violated the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment” I would like to give my opinion and say that there is nothing cruel and unusual about giving an underaged “child” a …show more content…

Possibly because there are normal functioning kids, and then there are those who have mental illness that provokes them to kill instead of interact with society. The authors i do not agree with are Marjie Lundstorm and Jennifer Jenkins, i do not agree with these authors because they simply keep making the mistake of thinking and calling these criminals “the poor children in prison” and “they’re not adults” these two authors think that the only ones to blame here are is the U.S. and criminal system, but i find it funny that it wasn’t the U.S who killed those people and it wasn’t the criminal system who conjured up the idea. Personally i find these “children” as guilty as any other criminal, their age shouldn’t make a difference on their punishment, when someone asks me the definitions of a child i describe them to be playing with dolls and action figures, pretending to be superheros and the good guys, i don’t describe them as these horrible monsters you see now, and apparently it’s because “We’ve created this image that teenagers are something to be feared” but that is not something i agree

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