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Punishing A Shooter’s Parents Misses The Point

Punishing A Shooter’s Parents Misses The Point

Update: 2024-05-07
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On today’s episode of Hear Me Out: prosecuting parents.


Ethan Crumbley’s parents didn’t pull the trigger that killed 4 students in 2021 — but they’ve been sentenced to prison time for it all the same. 


School shootings are devastatingly common in this country, but punishing the parents of the killer is a new tactic of handling the aftermath. Even if you think the Crumbleys were bad parents, though, the questions should be posed: why are we punishing them under the law? And is this the best way to address, or even prevent, mass tragedies?


Professor, writer, and legal contributor for ABC News Kim Wehle joins us to urge for a look at the bigger picture.



If you have thoughts you want to share, or an idea for a topic we should tackle, you can email the show: hearmeout@slate.com


Podcast production by Maura Currie.


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Punishing A Shooter’s Parents Misses The Point

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