A Headline Reads, “Teen Shot-- Parents Seek Death Penalty.”

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Term Paper Title	A Headline Reads, “Teen Shot-- Parents Seek Death Penalty.”
# of Words	822
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	3.29

     A headline reads, “Teen shot-- parents seek death penalty.”
In this incident a California teen was shot in a disagreement
between him and a fellow classmate.  The classmate, it seems, was
the others constant victim of harassment, bruises, and bloodied
and broken noses.  It seems that this teen, this victim of
harassment and a bullies toy, decided he  wouldn’t be bullied
anymore.  So, the next day, having borrowed his mothers
“Saturday Night Special” a .22 caliber pistol about the size of an
index card and waited for the bully to approach him before school,
and when the ‘bully’ came, he leveled the .22 pistol at his chest
and fired three times.  The bully, now the victim, was DOA, dead
on arrival.  The victim, now the murderer, was being held for the
murder of a fellow classmate.  Although he is only 15, nearing 16,
he will be tried as an adult for his crime.  His plea?  Self defense.
The outcome of the short trial sentenced the boy, the murderer, to
a life inside a prison.  He was sent to a specially designed prison
that held only the most violent of juveniles, many of which had
been tried as adults. Where they would stay until they reach their
eighteenth birthday, and what would they get?  A ticket to a high
security prison, full of rapists, pedaphiles and others of their kin,
ready to further pervert them and make them more efficient and
darken their souls, or rape, sodomise and kill them for being the
new arrivals.

     We blame the gun, we blame society, we blame the parents
of the child, who really deserves it?  Who should the blame fall
upon, and who should decide what happens to the juviniles?
Should these children, the future of our nation, be left to rot in
federal prisons to be perverted by the most massocistic and
sociophatic minds in the country? Placed safely out of sight, away
from the eyes of the general public, and out of harms way, where
they can’t harm the taxpaying, law abiding citizens of this great
land.  The answer is...  I don’t know.

     Those who strongly oppose the release of prisoners often do
so with the question, "What about the victims?" My question is,
"Why should concern for victims and prisoners be mutually
exclusive?" Indeed, they do not even represent two distinct groups.
The  prisoner is often also a victim, and I do not mean only the
victim of perceived injustices. Many, if not most, prisoners have
experienced the death of family or friends due to violence. Some
became perpetrators of violence because their families o...

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