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Originally Posted by disruptivehair
I don't think you should be tried as an adult until you're 16 or 17; it shouldn't be automatic, but the DA should have to petition to have you tried as an adult; and I don't think anyone younger than 16 should ever get a life sentence, and nobody under 18 should ever get a death sentence.
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Why not? If a 16 year old walked up to your mother and blew her brains out-
what should happen to him? Probation? Mental hospital? A long prison term?
do you want him back out on the streets after 10 years in prison? Even more evil than when he went in? Prison does not rehabilitate people. Any one who would kill someone once would do it again.
If I killed someone in a jealous rage-that part of me that would take another life does not go away IMO-it's always there...
Some of the laws may need to be changed like for burglary and such, but murder--no.