Too Young? By Aaron Dechant English Comp. I A Mr. Keller 25 October 1996         In 1643 a sixteen year old boy was put to death for sodomizing a cow. Three hundred and fifty years later, sixteen states have legitimized the execution of juveniles. Four of those twelve states have lowered the legal age of execution to twelve. For whatever reasons the death penalty has been supported by the public since this country's existence. In this day and age …showed first 75 words of 1688 total…

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