Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120626:01:01:00
Crime, if you were 16 and one day, after that ruling in 1988, it was still okay to kill you for that crime, but if you were less than 16, that was the line that was drawn there, 1988. 17 years after that in 2005, was when the supreme court said, actually, no, the cut-off now is 18 years old. you cannot kill teenagers in america as punishment for crimes they committed before they were old enough to vote. so that's where we were up until a couple years ago in this country. constitutionally speaking, kids cannot legally be killed by our government. the state can't actively take a kid's life. but ...