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Executing Nine Year Olds (the best TED talk ever - or why I like lawyers)

David R Dow (voluntarily) represents the poor on death row – no one else cares.  Two people a month are executed in Texas.  Lawyer Dow points out that it is children in need of protection that have no way of avoiding the juvenile justice system that end up in the criminal justice system.  The very worst cases end up on death row.  How can we intervene? This is not rocket science.  Points of intervention

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