(Community Matters) Fourteen year old Brandon McInerney’s killing of gay teen Lawrence King was a horrific crime here. Nevertheless, we shouldn’t be charging 14 year olds as adults. This is unconscionable. If laws don’t effectively address horrible crimes committed by youth, amend the laws.
I’m not so sure our country with the world’s largest prison population*, death sentences handed down disproportionately to the poor & people of color, and police & investigative corruption doesn’t look as backward to the rest of the world as Sharia Law appears to Americans
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one in every 32 American adults — behind bars, on probation or on parole. Annual tab approximately $60 billion.
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