Not being anyone s fault accept the two parties who created the Malay. The two boys ended the ordeal by taking their own lives. One could argue both sides, depending on their views of capitol punishment. I believe, in a case such as this the two boys, if they still were alive should have been tried and convicted as adults and sentenced to death, period. The topic of argument, is whether or not children should be tried and convicted as adults for committing violent crimes consisting of robbery, murder, and assault.
Christian ethics is a very confusing, frustrating, and debilitating thing to understand.
I believe that Christian ethics will never be fully understood. In this definition alone one would think that in order to be ethical one would have to act in a moral, good mannered way. But I have come to see that the meaning and or definition of Christian ethics are endless and almost impossible to define. Youth incarceration can only be remotely debated as being ethical through Hauerwas writings. Hauerwas discusses Christian ethics through the gospel truth verses the gospel false.