The story is that extreme poverty in their country lures uneducated Somali yutes into signing on into the piracy business, including volunteers as young as 13 or 14.
Whether this is correct or not in this particular piracy case, capital punishment for a group of youths would be iffy in an American court. The bleeding hearts would have a field day.
I guess we just have to wait for more details to come out.
Leni
if they did ever wind up in an American court, it could take twenty years with all the appeals...but the fact they are Muslims is important...can’t let patriotic American desires for punishing murderers of innocent Americans get in the way of outreach to the Muslim world.
“I wish I remember where I read that most of the Somali pirates who were captured are extremely young, some still in their teens.”
I remember reading the same thing. It’s intentional on the part of the terrorist leaders, of course. We’ll probably see even more of it since they know that this is a weakness in the American court system under the current regime.