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Justifiable Juvenile Jailing vs Juvenile Execution

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There are currently 19 statesthat allow the execution of 16 and 17 year olds for the commission of capital crimes and 73 people are currently on death row for crimes they committed when they were that age. However, the U.S. Supreme Court has already banned the executions of 15 year olds and fewer states now allow execution for all juveniles since that 1988 ruling. watch when children kill

A case study: Christopher Simmons
Christopher Simmons was 17 years old when he was arrested for the September 9, 1993 murder of Shirley Crook. Crook’s body was found in the Meramec River in St. Louis County, Missouri. She had been tied with electric cable, leather straps and duct tape, had bruises on her body and fractured ribs. The cause of her death was ruled as drowning. Simmons had a family history of abuse, a possible mental condition and…

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CELEBRITY CRIME: Suge Knight Has Phone and Visitation Revoked In Jail

  
According to the NY Daily News, Suge Knight has been hit with some very deflating news while he sits in prison awaiting trail for the killing a man with his truck in 2015.

Jailed rap mogul Suge Knight has been stripped of family visitation and phone calls in a surprise move his fiancée called “unfair.”
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge halted Knight’s access to his parents, children and spiritual advisers in a decision handed down under seal.

The change was requested by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department as Knight remains locked up on charges he ran over two men with his truck — killing one of them — outside a burger restaurant in Compton in January 2015.

Suge’s fiancé, Toi-Lin is not happy about his phone & visitation being revoked and thinks the whole thing is unfair. 

“It’s absolutely not fair,” his fiancée Toi-Lin Kelly told the Daily News. “His rights were taken away with no explanation.”

She said the couple’s 6-year-old son was allowed to visit Knight in jail shortly before Thanksgiving but now must stay away.

“Suge was so prevalent in life. He used to take him to school and play with him before studio time. Now it’s nothing. They can’t even have a phone call,” she said.

$3M In Meth Found In Religious Picture Frames During Texas Traffic Stop 

  

Via The Associated Press– A Texas Panhandle traffic stop has yielded $3 million worth of methamphetamine hidden in the frames of religious-themed pictures.

Two people were arrested during the stop near Conway while bound for Georgia.

On Tuesday morning  a car was pulled over for a traffic violation on Interstate 40, east of Amarillo.

A car search turned up 27 bundles of methamphetamine, about 35 pounds, inside the structure of several picture frames portraying images of religious figures.

The driver and the passenger, both from Tijuana, Mexico, face felony charges of possession of a controlled substance.

The police believe the meth was being taken from Mexico to Atlanta.