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LETTERS, Page 11Death for Teens
The U.S. Supreme Court has committed a grave injustice in
allowing capital punishment for 16- and 17-year-olds (LAW, July
10). Now the state is able to take the lives of people who, because
of age, cannot vote or affect the state's actions. It is execution
without representation.
Ken Wagner
Seaford, N.Y.
This ruling is not barbaric, as bleeding-heart liberals insist.
If these teenagers have the means, the capacity, the perversion,
the insensitivity and the physical ability to commit gruesome
murders, why should they evade punishment on the basis of their
age?
Alberto Mayorga-Gomez
Miami Beach