Not to diminish the severity of this heinous crime, but I don’t get the entire concept of charging a juvenile as an adult. Crimes committed by under-aged youths have been subject to lesser punishment, based on the fact that their reasoning skills have not yet been fully developed. The actual crime they commit, whether it be relatively innocuous, such as shoplifting, or incredibly serious, as murder most certainly is, should still fall under the framework of a crime committed by a juvenile. Or else, just do away with the whole notion, and charge a third-grader who steals a cookie from the cafeteria with felony burglary.
LOL, great minds think alike.
Age 6 is the age that historically has been used as the defining point as to when a child knows right from wrong. Of course that was set at a time whe parents actually taught right and wrong to their kids.
stealing a cookie isn’t a felony b/c it’s dollar amt is too low.
kids know what murder is. it’s the one crime i think should have no distinction btwn juvenile or adult. another person’s life was ended deliberately, savagely and prematurely, without mercy.