A. Should the death penalty be applied to minors? The two groups opposed to this issue are religious and medical groups. They think they are too young to know what they have done. Medical groups believe that adolescents are less developed than adults and should not be held to the same standards. . The opposing side, held primarily by state officials, believes that if he is old enough to commit the crime, he is old enough to face punishment, including death.B. The very first execution of a minor took place in 1642 with Thomas Graunger in Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts. Over the next three hundred years, a total of approximately 365 people were executed for juvenile offenses, representing 1.8 percent of the approximately twenty thousand confirmed American executions since 1608. Twenty-two of these executions were for juvenile offenses have since been imposed. the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976. These twenty-two recent executions of juvenile offenders represent approximately 2% of the total executions since 1976. The death penalty for juvenile offenders has become a unique practice in the United States, in to the extent that it appears to have been abandoned by nations everywhere else, largely due to the express provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and several other international treaties and agreements. The reason this is a moral issue is because the death of a human being is a moral issue, and if that human being is not even an adult, that makes it an atrocity that he was put to death by the legal system which in all aspects is placed there for our protection. The punishment is intended for the criminal, but in reality only the family of the minor in question is punished.D. The death penalty costs more than life in prison without the possibility of parole. Florida spent approximately $57 million on the death penalty between 1973 and 1988 to carry out eighteen executions, an average of $3.2 million per execution. It costs six times more to execute a person in Florida than to incarcerate a prisoner for life without the possibility of parole. The average cost of a capital trial in Florida is......half the paper ......y between the lawbreaker and society. A just punishment is restrictive and cannot be mitigated by any utilitarian consideration. Kant also believes in “blood guilt” and the need to purify criminal actions. This question is quite tricky for me, as I could argue for both sides of a miner to be put to death. I agree that if they commit the crime they can serve that time, but at the same time they are just little kids and they don't know any better. The way I see how this situation can change is that instead of holding the child responsible for the crime, we should look down on the parents. The reason I say this is because a study shows that most convicted youth come from broken homes. The old adage says “monkey sees, monkey does”. I think that if these children had the chance to grow up in a stable family, there is a good chance that they would be upstanding citizens. So my conviction may be torn on the subject, I will have to say that I am against the death penalty for minors, because I believe that they do not know what they are doing, due to a lack of maturity and experience. in life.