[572] in peace2
14 year old sentenced to life without parole
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc F Rios)
Fri Mar 9 16:07:50 2001
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 16:07:37 -0500 (EST)
From: Marc F Rios <mrios@MIT.EDU>
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This is so flagrantly wrong.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/09/national/09CND-SLAY.html
This 12 year old boy attacked a 6 year old girl and imitated wrestling
moves that he saw on TV. The jury convicted the now 14 year old boy of
premediated murder, and florida law has some kind of manditory minimum law
which means that the judge had no other choice but to sentence him to life
without parole. Not only is this a violation of international law, but it
is sickening to think that this kid is going to be raised in prison. He
shouldn't have no reprocussions for doing what he did, but this is
completely insane.
We should all write letters asking for clemency of some sort from Jeb
Bush... his address is below.
Govermor Jeb Bush
The Capitol
Tallahassee, FL
32399-0001
-Marc
