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Juveniles and the death penalty

This film profiles a number of Death Row inmates who committed murder before they were 18 and talks with prosecutors, defense attorneys, and surviving family members about the kind of punishment appropriate to criminals who were juveniles when they committed their crimes. Is there a moral as well as a legal distinction? If the criminal is old enough to commit murder, is he old enough to be executed? Is society's goal deterrence or revenge? Has society lost all hope of rehabilitating the young? The convicted murderers are extraordinarily articulate as they demonstrate a range of attitudes, from regret to anomie to religious conversion.

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  • "Death row kids"@en
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  • "This film profiles a number of Death Row inmates who committed murder before they were 18 and talks with prosecutors, defense attorneys, and surviving family members about the kind of punishment appropriate to criminals who were juveniles when they committed their crimes. Is there a moral as well as a legal distinction? If the criminal is old enough to commit murder, is he old enough to be executed? Is society's goal deterrence or revenge? Has society lost all hope of rehabilitating the young? The convicted murderers are extraordinarily articulate as they demonstrate a range of attitudes, from regret to anomie to religious conversion."@en
  • "Looks at the cases of people who killed before they were 18; interviews prosecutors, defense attorneys, and family about appropriate punishment in such cases."@en

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