Re: Cops in the bars, from Diamondback newspaper

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From: Rob Rodgers
Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 00:00

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slush+news@wam.umd.edu (slush) wrote:
>I think it's odd that Texas is trying to push back the age for juvenile
>death penalties to 12.  In the rest of the country, youths as young as 16
>can receive the death sentance.  I'm not sure why culpability for life and
>death decisions starts at 16, yet the government feels that people under
>21 can't act responsibly enough to go have a beer.

How about because we expect children to grow into adulthood as time
goes by, but most research suggests that a sociopath is a sociopath
for life, untreatable (for the most part) and dangerous to society?

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From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Rob Rodgers)
Subject: Re: Cops in the bars, from Diamondback newspaper
Date: 1998/05/09
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