Victims' rights.

• Position: Letters to the Editor - Letter to the editor

Luis J. Rodríguez would have us believe that it is faulty logic to charge seventeen-year-olds as adults ("Juvenile Injustice," July issue). But it is not faulty logic to assume that when a young person murders, be is acting base and feral. It is not faulty logic to assume that such a wanton act is the nature of the beast and the beast will retain that nature throughout his or her lifetime.

Rodríguez laments that our government refused to ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The United States is correct in putting...