Dead Teens Walking

1. The book and the article are the same because each of the characters are persecuted for the way they act or a crime they have commited. However they are also both abused in their younger ages which shows that how they are brought up affects they way they act. It doesn't actually give reason but it is basically the same background.

2. They were both abused in their younger years.
"Formerly, White Fang had been merely the enemy of his kind, withal a ferocious enemy. He now became the enemy of all things, and more ferocious than ever. To such an extent was he tormented, that he hated blindly and without the faintest spark of reason."
"The case of Robert Anthony Carter, a child of abuse who was put on death row in Texas 15 years ago for crimes he allegedly committed when he was 17 years old, is not atypical. Carter, who is black, grew up in a Houston housing project and was routinely taunted and beaten by other children because his clothes were ragged and dirty. His mother and stepfather would thrash Robert and his five siblings with wooden sticks and electric cords. At age five, he was hit in the head with a brick. At 10, one of his brothers hit him so hard on the head with a baseball bat that the bat broke. Another time, his mother smashed a dinner plate on his head. None of these injuries was ever treated. His IQ has been measured at 74, which is considered semiretarded."

3. I think it's ridiculous that young kids are put on death row. They aren't old enough to even know that what they are doing is wrong. I understand that no matter what age you are killing is wrong, but many of these kids were abused and they don't know the difference. What they need is help not to be put to death. White Fang is just a story so i don't know if i can really make it relate to a real life issue. But it makes sense when you apply it. I don't believe in the death penalty at all so there ya go.