My Opinion

I agree with the argument, as from my own experiences, when you’re a youngster, you can easily influenced by anything and anyone. As they discussed in the case, many juveniles that perform these crimes and acts of violence, are often affected by their family or social life where they could be victims of society’s neglect or are severely impaired cognitively and emotionally. These kids have no one to go to, to talk to, to ask and even to love; therefore they turn to others who may be in the same situation, except they are older and smarter! These older and smarter kids, over power and bribe the younger members of society into doing things that they don’t want to do because they know the consequences of those particular actions, therefore they have someone to do it for them! In this Court case, I think it was only fair to let William Wayne Thompson off the hook, as he was most probably convinced to come along and help them as he was the brother of the victim’s wife! However I think after seeing that Thompson had " a history of juvenile offenses, and witnesses from the juvenile justice system testified that he was not amenable to rehabilitation"(Flaherty, Lois T, Adolescent Psychiatry, 2002) I think that it would only serve him right, to be given the death sentence if he ever committed an act of violence similar to this one, as it just wouldn’t make sense to keep letting him off and finally after prison, back into society where he could possible do it again as he might think that he can get away with murder whenever he likes!