Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.

Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.

We've solved our crime problem in a brutally Darwinian way.

Without knowing it the girl was arguing on the side of the world's expert criminologists, who hold that to destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.

Is it always in the interest of the public safety to seek the prosecutor's traditional solution -- the harshest penalty possible? Or is the public best served by finding ways to change a kid's lot in life for the better, even if that means opening the prison door?