# How do you feel about people that murdered as children and their guilt?

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**Created:** [October 18, 2021, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-people-that-murdered-as-children-and-their-guilt/952707 "2021-10-18T19:48:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 18, 2021, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-people-that-murdered-as-children-and-their-guilt/952707/4 "2021-10-18T23:16:07Z")

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I am obviously not familiar with Smith’s psychological condition. Institutionalizing a person who presents a clear danger to other people if free is a separate issue from criminal punishment and maybe that’s why he remained locked up for so long,

If it wasn’t that he was dangerously insane, well, in my opinion, a 27-year criminal incarceration imposed upon a child is barbaric.

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