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I think the death penalty would be poorly applied here. They should all be institutionalized so they can be treated and studied. What good would they be dead? How could we learn about their behaviour unless professionals can interact with them to know why they did such a thing?
If you want to prevent things like this from happening in the future, if you want to learn about the human mind and what makes us tick (and what makes us do terrible things), then why should they all be executed? There is a lot to learn here: group think, youth thought processes, adult/youth interactions, etc., etc. This is a case for our time. We can learn much about human psychology, and it's all right here.
The death penalty is just sweeping it under the carpet. Many believe suicide is the easy way out for an individual. Isn't the death penalty the easy way out for the state?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
Last edited by Baraka_Guru; 03-22-2008 at 05:54 PM..
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