Should Teens Be Able to Get Life Without Parole?

WE adults should be able to make up our minds as to what constitutes adulthood. If 18 is the correct age then 18 is exactly what it should be, not at the discretion of the prosecutor or judge or the nature of the crime, etc. To say an 18 year old cannot drink alcohol but is old enough to kill our enemies, is absolute insanity, in my opinion. To say a 14 or 16 year old is old enough to be put to death for murder even when that child is not even old enough to smoke is also insane. There is no way that a prosecutor should have the authority to decide that a child should be treated as an adult JUST because of the nature of his/her crime. I knew of a particular young man at the age of 14 and the son of a preacher, that hung his younger brother upside down by his feet, and then proceeded to burn him with cigarettes (along with his buddies) until the young boy finally died, and then all the boys merely turned and walked away, leaving the dead boy hanging there while they laughed and played on their way back home. All the boys stayed in juvenile detention until they were 21 and then released. The 21 year old brother turned out to be a sexual deviate and was arrested several times for sexual advances toward women and raping young boys. This boy was erroneously released simply because he turned 21 years of age, but was a long way from being cured, or even having the right treatment. He should NOT have been given life in prison which he wasn't but at the same time he should NOT have been released just because he turned
21, but he was. Our screwed up laws is a good example of our own screwed up way of thinking. We have laws that are stupid in that they are literally unenforceable, or if they are enforced, they violate the individuals constitutional rights etc. We have a law here in Georgia, and other States probably has something similar, that says sex perverts must stay away from children and never come within 1000 feet of them. Where in the hell is there any common sense to this? Children are every where ! These sickos can't go to the grocery store, can't go to church, can't go to work, and in fact cannot really go any where for fear of running into kids along the way. That is only, of course, IF they are trying to be good little boys and obeying the law. But why should we expect them to obey such a law as the 1000 foot rule, if they didn't obey the rule that says you cannot violate little boys period.!? Can you just imagine a bunch of kids go bicycling through a neighborhood full of perverts, and they go scattering likes rats leaving a sinking ship. haha that would be funny. Anyway, Lawyers make the laws, Lawyers, defend those who violate them, and they are all made to where it is easy to violate them.

It is appalling at how flagrant and desensitized these young ones have become towards crime, heinous acts that once were thought of being committed by adults, and yet they are murderers, pedophiles, gang rapists and the like. Acts that were once thought of as the unthinkable crimes, have become everyday news and these kids (and they truly are just little kids) are following examples and footsteps of individuals who knowingly committed such crimes. Not that they don't know right from wrong, especially when they are crimes such as these, but they brutally execute them with no remorse and have become desensitized. I know nobody wants to admit it, but the violent and brutal video games, music, movies that glorify brutal murders and dismembering along with the rise of domestic and child abuse, broken homes, the broken foster care system and the ultimate decline in family morals and values, contributes to all the things leading up to acts that will eventually be acted out upon. Sadly, I have to agree that the punishment should fit the crime and even if they are only 14 they had knowledge of the consequences of such an action, and it's not like there isn't enough information to make better decisions. I do feel for the families of both the perpetrator and the victims, because nobody wins when something like that happens, but they should pay the price for their actions-kind of like when you go to the store and you break something-you are responsible for paying for it. Accountability and responsibility are lacking in the values and morals of many today, the reality of their actions may not be storybook endings, but they will have to pay to society what they owe. There are to sayings that I grew up hearing, "If you can't do the time, don't do the crime." And "If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen." Basically referring to ones inability to hold up under pressure and be able to navigate correctly ones actions, and being able to own up to ones actions and take what ever consequence comes your way.