16 year old killed by gov
Within the last few weeks, the alleged Washington D.C.-area snipers were caught. All evidence points toward seventeen year old John Lee Malvo and forty one year old John Allen Muhammad. Considering Malvo is only seventeen, he can’t be executed in any surrounding area except for Virginia where the minimum age for execution is sixteen. This interested me heavily considering the government cannot find a right answer, even after six are dead. I know I wouldn’t make a decision as unwise as Malvo has made, yet, dying this young is unimaginable. By the time you are seventeen, you should be able to tell the difference between right and wrong. Adulthood does not just abruptly creep up on you on your eighteenth birthday, it is a process of growing. For me, I was eased into being an adult before the time I was seventeen. My mother took a traveling-nurse job to attain more money for our family hoping it would help fund my college tuition. My sister had already left for college and I was the only one who would be taking care of the house. At first when she left, I was somewhat overwhelmed; I couldn’t do my laundry, couldn’t
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