Juvenile Death Penalty
There is a lot of controversy as to where there should be a death penalty in the justice system or if they should get rid of it. There have been several inmates on death row that end up being innocent. There must be more stipulations in place in order to sentence a criminal with the death sentence. There is also controversy over whether juvenile death sentence is unconstitutional. There are several scientific studies where it shows that juveniles have less cognitive development than that of an adult as well as they are prone to peer pressure. In the case of Sean Sellers, he was sentenced to death. Part of the reason one of the jurors said they gave him the death sentence was because Oklahoma only had two choices at the time of his crime. Life with the possibility of parole or death. If they would have given Sean the life with parole he would of only served about 7 to 15 years of his sentence and then be released and they believe that was too low of a punishment for someone who committed 3 murders. They decided to go with the death penalty because at that time, Oklahoma had not executed anyone in 2o years, at the time of the trial. I do not believe that his cognitive was a factor in his reasoning behind these murders he committed. His friend testified that he just wanted to see what it was like to kill someone, this was the murder he committed in 1985. He later killed his parents in 1986. If it was just to see how it felt then why is it that he had to kill his parents a year later? He was self-proclaimed to participate in a satanic cult. Although Sean had killed 3 people I believed that there was a possibility of change in himself while he was incarcerated. There is many factors that were not given in order for me to determine if he should have been executed or not. Did he show remorse? If this was a curiosity killing, why kill his parents? What was the reason behind their killings? He was supposedly diagnosed with Multiple Personality Disorder, which in fact could have been a change in his sentencing or the type of sentences the prosecution was looking to seek, however, I do not believe that he was tried appropriately and that if he had gotten a fair trial the outcome might have been a lot different. The reason he was executed was because of the fact that he proclaimed to be in a satanic cult as well as deciding to kill these victims and then tell his friend about the killings. There was no mercy shown to the victims. One in which he didn’t know, the store clerk, and two in which he was to love by all means, his parents. There are several theories of deviance that apply to Sean Sellers. Control Theory because of improper socialization in which he was proclaimed to be in a cult and because his defense said he was consumed in the video game, Dungeons and Dragons. He was unable to distinguish between the real world
There is a lot of controversy as to where there should be a death penalty in the justice system or if they should get rid of it. There have been several inmates on death row that end up being innocent. There must be more stipulations in place in order to sentence a criminal with the death sentence. There is also controversy over whether juvenile death sentence is unconstitutional. There are several scientific studies where it shows that juveniles have less cognitive development than that of an adult as well as they are prone to peer pressure. In the case of Sean Sellers, he was sentenced to death. Part of the reason one of the jurors said they gave him the death sentence was because Oklahoma only had two choices at the time of his crime. Life with the possibility of parole or death. If they would have given Sean the life with parole he would of only served about 7 to 15 years of his sentence and then be released and they believe that was too low of a punishment for someone who committed 3 murders. They decided to go with the death penalty because at that time, Oklahoma had not executed anyone in 2o years, at the time of the trial. I do not believe that his cognitive was a factor in his reasoning behind these murders he committed. His friend testified that he just wanted to see what it was like to kill someone, this was the murder he committed in 1985. He later killed his parents in 1986. If it was just to see how it felt then why is it that he had to kill his parents a year later? He was self-proclaimed to participate in a satanic cult. Although Sean had killed 3 people I believed that there was a possibility of change in himself while he was incarcerated. There is many factors that were not given in order for me to determine if he should have been executed or not. Did he show remorse? If this was a curiosity killing, why kill his parents? What was the reason behind their killings? He was supposedly diagnosed with Multiple Personality Disorder, which in fact could have been a change in his sentencing or the type of sentences the prosecution was looking to seek, however, I do not believe that he was tried appropriately and that if he had gotten a fair trial the outcome might have been a lot different. The reason he was executed was because of the fact that he proclaimed to be in a satanic cult as well as deciding to kill these victims and then tell his friend about the killings. There was no mercy shown to the victims. One in which he didn’t know, the store clerk, and two in which he was to love by all means, his parents. There are several theories of deviance that apply to Sean Sellers. Control Theory because of improper socialization in which he was proclaimed to be in a cult and because his defense said he was consumed in the video game, Dungeons and Dragons. He was unable to distinguish between the real world