Each night as I sit down to watch the news or open the paper to a headline screaming "Kids Attack Again!" I sigh. This dilemma is not growing any smaller no matter how hard we wish for it to do so. Instead it is manifesting and spreading like an unstoppable disease. What our nation faces is a problem that does not have a straight answer. Should the juvenile offenders, we often like to call them as kids, be tried in adult legal systems? Should we throw them away into jail with other hard adult criminals, and not bestow any mercy upon them? Is it right morally and ethically? "We romance childhood as a time of innocence and beauty- (William A 1999) I do not have an explanation for this statement when research shows that crime is going up and the age level it is done at is going down. 1998, Springfield, Oregon 15-year-old Kip Kintel opened fire in the cafeteria of Thurston High School. Two were killed, twenty-five wounded. 14-year-old Michael Carnean, in 1997, pulled out a pistol and began firing on a student prayer group. Three were killed, five wounded. (Chiou H. 2002) 13-year-old Nathaniel Brazil shoots and kills a teacher. 12-year-old Lionel Tate beats to death a 6-year-old playmate. (Little Adult Criminals May 2002 editorial. New York Times N.Y.) 11-year-old Andrew Golden and 13-year-old Mitchell Johnson pulled the fire alarm, and shot at student coming out of the school building. Five were dead, and ten wounded. .
Who can give us the answers to why such horrendous crimes are done by such young kids? Do we install enough fear into the other kids, by throwing the young offenders into adult jails, locking them up and letting them rot in there to the end? Is it the only solution to solve our problem? It might seem odd to some people but I firmly believe in giving the young criminals a second chance at life. Instead of throwing the youth into prisons where they are "twice as likely to be beaten or to commit suicide, and five times as likely to be sexually assaulted," (William A.
Yet mercy killing is not allowed in the United States and should be legalized. ... Unlike mercy killing, suicide is not based on a person's physical state of health. ... The allowance of mercy killing is not a religious decision but instead a governmental decision. ... What about people who do not practice any religion? ... Some say mercy killing conflicts with the oath taken by physicians not to kill. ...
It is not murder, it is not cruelty. ... While most people may approve of "allowing someone to die" or "mercy death" in which the patient in question has taken active participation in choosing his or her own fate, a lot of other people do not understand or do not approve of "mercy killing". ... "Mercy death" is completely voluntary, it does not in any way involve a doctor choosing, telling or even suggesting the end of a life. In fact, if "mercy death" were to become legalized, the process would take months in which the doctor and counselors would attempt to talk the party involved into NOT op...
Showing mercy to an animal is right, but a human must suffer till the end. ... Why was Mac not given a DNR (do not resuscitate) order? ... Natural to me would mean without intervention, but is that not the same as not doing anything to keep a patient alive or in other words not calling for help when a patient codes? ... Are there more healthcare professionals assisting in mercy killings than we know? ... Would they want mercy or would they rather suffer through with medical treatments? ...
Mercy for the Merciful Mercy is a strange thing. ... However, this is not the case. ... This is not the case with the Misfit. ... To those who can see their own faults, accept them and the mercy granted to them by God and man, then mercy is a reasonable and wonderful thing. To those who are confused with their own faults and refuse mercy from God and man, then mercy is a thing that does not exist. ...
Peter Singer tells his view on euthanasia (mercy killings) and why they should take place in some cases. ... It is a hard case to decide, and it is made all the worse when it is someone who cannot communicate their wishes, or is not conscious enough of what is happening to decide. ... I don't think you should kill someone if they are mentally unable to live their lives (not comatose, but rather mentally ill). In Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, one of the characters kills a mentally crippled character in an act of mercy, but was it really right to do so? ... , and c) is there a re...
Euthanasia or better known as mercy killing, is a practice of ending a life so as to release an individual life from an incurable disease or intolerable suffering. ... The majority of the medical profession also does not support Euthanasia. ... The patient may not be mentally aware of what he or she is suggesting. ... Euthanasia may be "mercy" killing but it is still murder no matter what the circumstances. ... Some support Euthanasia others do not. ...
He demonstrated forgiveness by giving them another chance to live their lives and showed mercy by not killing them. ... He did this by showing mercy and forgave them for the sins that they had committed. God's mercy had been demonstrated over and over again. ... God had shown mercy, not because he regretted his decision to have Isaac sacrificed in the first place, but rather because he tested Abraham to see how faithful he was to his Lord. ... God acts as he does out of mercy and forgiveness, not insecurity. ...
Toni Morrison's "A Mercy," was published in 2008, and takes place during the late-seventeenth century. ... Instead of simply portraying slavery in black-and-white terms of racial tension, A Mercy shows slavery in different forms. ... This again shows how in A Mercy, slavery and freedom are not solely characterized by race. ... Lastly, various forms of betrayal are shown in A Mercy. ... Her betrayal does not come out of cruelty but from pain. ...
Euthanasia can be described as "mercy killing" or the ending of a person's life because they no longer have the desire to live. ... While that may or may not be true, it is ultimately the patients decision whether or not he wants to die. ... When desirable life has been thoroughly exhausted and every effort has been made to prevent the inevitable, assisted suicide should be made legally possible for the merciful, to show mercy to the dying who request intervention to end their suffering. ... The doctors should not be forced into this position. If euthanasia was legalized they would not...
Such a brutal sentence is not necessary. ... Most, if not all, of the accused "witches" were innocent women. ... Mercy is amiss in The Scarlet Letter. ... Mercy and respect are literally stolen from a caring mother. ... Most of the puritan people do not recognize forgiveness. ...