I think everyone does stupid stuff. Part of doing stupid stuff is learning that you did stupid stuff, and later on being grateful that it was only small stupid stuff (for almost all of us).
But I think when it comes to murdering someone age really means zip to me. You’ve ended someone else’s life and it doesn’t matter if they are old, or young. It doesn’t matter if the murderer is old, or young. If it’s murder the intent to kill is present. That’s all that matters. Murder isn’t self defense.
I don’t see how a murderer - if they are deemed to have committed murder - can get less of a sentence because they’re under a certain age. It makes the person who they kill less important under the law.
Oh too bad, if your murderer was older we could lock her away forever, but since she’s 16 she cna get out. Your life isn’t worth locking her away forever for, but if she was two years older, your life would be.
What the hell kind of justice is that? It isn’t, and that’s why people havea problem with this.
I mean justice in sentencing is a major component for people to be able to actually forgive someone and move on in their lives, because they know a just sentence was administered and is being administered. When you know you’re going to get justice, it makes it possible to forgive, and it makes it possible for those affected to be able to move forward from the evil that occurred to them.
boy you make a strong argument. I have a love one that died of a heart attack a week after a person pulled a knife on them to scare them regarding some nonsense. I never knew who the person was but God only knows what I would have done if I got my hands on them. And that wasn’t even direct murder. So yes I would want someone to go to jail for life if they actually shot or stabbed my loved one to death. that or I would want 10 minutes alone with them with the weapon of my choice
When I lived in CO a 13 year old boy stabbed a neighbor 13 year old girl to death in her kitchen, then ran her 6 year old sister down in the field outback and killed her too. Mom came home 20 minutes later.
At the time, under CO law, he could not be tried as an adult, so had to be released and his record expunged when he turned 18.
Some very unhappy people in this very small town, and there was lots of discussion about how he would likely disappear if he ever came back. Some millions of empty acres north of town for him to disappear in.
I’m familiar with the case because I was hired by the insurance company to clean it up so the family wouldn’t have to. Only time in my life an insurance company instructed me to send them an invoice with just a number, no itemizing.