The court hearing of Christa Pike is now under way.
Pike’s lawyers are addressing the court at the moment.
The hearing had originally been billed as a press conference.
It's interesting that various religions that regulated fitness for marriage used puberty as a marker but we use age as a marker for criminal responsibility.
I don't think there is any real alternative, do you?
It's rough, but at some point there needs to be an arbitrary line.
I think 21 is used is many cases because that's supposedly when the brain has completed most of it's growing or something about pre-frontal cortex being fully developed.
In fact, the Catholic faith identifies seven years old as the "age of reason" or accountability: the age at which a child can be held morally culpable, tell right from wrong, and is eligible to receive Holy Communion and therefore, the Sacrament of Penance as well.
hospital staff request to remove shackles holding her to the hospital bed: denied
limited ability to comunicate, but will clearly understand her situation
she had requested to be killed by an all female firing squad and was denied, and will now face a long recovery in order to return to death row in good enough health to be killed, because you cant kill someone who is suffering.
she did a horrible thing 25 years ago and should have been hung the day she was convicted, hung twice if the rope broke, but by now she has paid her debt, and then some.
basterds didn't have the guts to make an execution order final.
a carpenter once remarked, 'if they would do these things in the dry wood, what would they do in the green?'
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[ 7.0 ms ] story [ 22.6 ms ] threadI don't think there is any real alternative, do you?
I think 21 is used is many cases because that's supposedly when the brain has completed most of it's growing or something about pre-frontal cortex being fully developed.
https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01209a.htm
However, we also have a legal concept of "age of majority" which was 21 until 1983. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_(Catholic_canon_law)#Ag...
limited ability to comunicate, but will clearly understand her situation
she had requested to be killed by an all female firing squad and was denied, and will now face a long recovery in order to return to death row in good enough health to be killed, because you cant kill someone who is suffering. she did a horrible thing 25 years ago and should have been hung the day she was convicted, hung twice if the rope broke, but by now she has paid her debt, and then some. basterds didn't have the guts to make an execution order final. a carpenter once remarked, 'if they would do these things in the dry wood, what would they do in the green?'