Date: 10/17/07
A young girl at the age of 14 year olds took 2 lives away and attempted to kill her own sister. Does she deserve a second chance? Ashley Jones helped her boyfriend kill her aunt and grandfather. She also put her grandmother, Mary Nalls in a coma but she still stands by her granddaughter side. Ms. Nalls defends her granddaughter, now 22 years old believing she deserves a second chance. She says, “If children are under age, sometimes they’re not responsible for what they do.” She's only protecting her but at the same time she is a murderer. As taunting as it may be for her, Ms. Jones deserves the same punishment as anyone else.
Laura Poston, the judge who sentenced Ms. Jones believes if she is on parole she will commit more murderers. An active child and to have a mind set out to kill four people should not have parole. She will be a danger to her own family and her own family refuse to foresee what she has done. Some experts like Bryan Stevenson, the executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative believe there is also hope. In this case, I don't see hope for a criminal. Maybe if it was my own child I would have a different point of view.
Latest research also proved 59% of 2,200 prisoners have no parole and are younger than 17 years old that have never convicted a previous crime. And 26% were involved in a murdered but never committed to one. I will contradict my point because those who don't have previous records and depending on their crime should have parole. Those are the ones that have hope for a life. But someone like Ashley Jones to attack and murder her own family members, will not.
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What struck me about this article was the sentence that says that in Europe the focus is on rehabilitation. Here it's on punishment. That and the lack of a distinction between pulling the trigger yourself and covering up for your older boyfriend who pulls the trigger. Are we a society that believes people are capable of changing?
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