{"id":67780,"date":"2018-08-27T05:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T10:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67780"},"modified":"2018-08-26T19:25:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T00:25:55","slug":"affirmative-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67780","title":{"rendered":"Affirmative Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n

The reason we don\u2019t try crazy people for crimes is society has decided it\u2019s not fair to punish people who lack the capacity to understand that what they were doing was wrong.<\/p>\n

The reason we don\u2019t try children for crimes is they lack the wisdom and maturity to control their behavior to follow the rules of civilized society.<\/p>\n

These concepts work for simple crimes like stealing an apple off the vendor\u2019s cart, or punching someone on the schoolyard, or shooting somebody while fooling around with Dad\u2019s pistol.\u00a0 They\u2019re acts of impulse, of stupidity, but not malice.<\/p>\n

Raping two girls while holding their boyfriends at gunpoint<\/a> doesn\u2019t fit those parameters, so the perp shouldn\u2019t get the break.\u00a0 He should be given a fair trial followed by a first-class hanging.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think there’s a point where “juvenile” justice shouldn’t apply.<\/p>\n

Some pathologies, a kid grows out of.\u00a0 Not sure “Raping while holding witnesses at gunpoint” is really one of ’em.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The reason we don\u2019t try crazy people for crimes is society has decided it\u2019s not fair to punish people who lack the capacity to understand that what they were doing was wrong. The reason we don\u2019t try children for crimes is they lack the wisdom and maturity to control […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67785,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67780\/revisions\/67785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}