Adults for crimes committed when they were children.
Comment on Saudi Arabia: Halt Executions of Child Offenders
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Wait, Saudi Arabia executes fucking children?
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
So they wait until they’re 18 to charge them?
That’s not meaningfully different! Also common in America.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Kind of. I’m not sure if it was specifically planned or just typical of courts being slow. In any case, the likely forced confessions shouldn’t be a reason to sentence anyone to death, especially for non-violent crimes. The death penalty shouldn’t be abolished everywhere.
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
The only case the death penalty seems socially useful is when it’s used for major white-collar crimes (eg, faking emissions, reducing testing for asbestos in talc products, reducing testing for listeria in baby formula, mass predatory lending resulting in millions of foreclosures, knowingly lying to promote war), since very few murders are doing cost-benefit analysis of murder, whereas these guys absolutely do consider potential consequences.
Crikeste@lemm.ee 5 months ago
America does it too!
…wikipedia.org/…/Capital_punishment_for_juveniles….