Re:How I got here (Preston Thorpe, incarcerated developer)
by frob on Sunday November 12, 2023 @09:57PM
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We also executed juvenile offenders until 2005.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_for_juvenil...
We are literally the only country that does it. It is a heinous and barbaric practice. And, like all of our mass incarceration system, is it vastly disproportionatly applied to Black children. We are a backwards country in many, many ways.
https://www.sentencingproject.org/policy-brief/juvenile-life...