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Roger Enriquez, a criminal justice professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio, said prosecutors should consider the couple's ages.

"This is a classic case here of individuals who are not mature enough to make these decisions on their own," he said.

Just to make sure I'm up to speed here;

Teens aren't mature enough to earn the death penalty for commiting a capital crime, but

Teens are mature enough to make the choice to have an abortion without parental consent, but

Teens both are, and are not mature enough to be held accountable if they try to combine the two by beating the pregnant girl to kill her unborn twins?

[LongElegantLegs]

Maybe, instead of the chair, they could messily dismember them and call it an extremely late-term abortion?