Dead Teen Walking

At first I didn’t see the two readings connecting at all, but after I asked it was a little more clear to me how they do connect. Both had to learn a sense of survival in the world. Cousin had to learn his survival on the streets with only his friends in which he thought he was doing by robbing with one of his friends. White Fang had to learn how to survive on his own and the motto of his survival was to kill or be killed. These were the words White Fang had to live by not only to stay alive but to eat too. "Out of this pack-persecution he learned two important things: how to take care of himself in a mass-fight against him; and how, on a single dog, to inflict the greatest amount of damage in the briefest space of time" (Pg 85/Chapter 3).
My opinion on placing teens on death row is a little cloudy to me still because there are a lot of things that come into play. We could say wait till they are of legal age 18, but like the discussion in class it’s not like when we wake up on our 18th birthday we feel way more mature. They could also just wait out the court date if the teen was close to 18. I don’t think that is right either. I guess I would like to see no death row period. I believe that everyone deserves a chance no matter the crime not saying they’ll pursue that chance but it’s worth a try in my eyes. I don’t know if anyone has ever watched Lincoln Heights a TV show on ABC Family, but they recently had a show about a boy that shot the main characters mother and killed her and he grew up and realized his wrong doing and was awarded that second chance. I don’t think White Fang had an impact on my view at the time I read the article because I didn’t really see the connection and the connection was made about the harsh upbringing but I don’t think that can be brought into play because what about all the others that had harsh upbringings that don’t do anything wrong. It’s a choice that is made by the individual although influenced by society it is our own choice.