Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 135 views

    Juvenile Justice - Alexandra Dupleich

    Uploaded by

    api-360554161
    The document discusses the issue of whether juveniles who commit murder should be tried as adults and face life in prison. It presents several cases where juveniles as young as 12 and 13 years old planned and committed murder, showing their capability to understand consequences. These juveniles were tried as adults and received life sentences. The document argues that regardless of age or brain development, if one takes someone's life then they should be held fully accountable and face life in prison, as killing cannot be justified or undone.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Juvenile Justice - Alexandra Dupleich

    Uploaded by

    api-360554161
    135 views4 pages
    The document discusses the issue of whether juveniles who commit murder should be tried as adults and face life in prison. It presents several cases where juveniles as young as 12 and 13 years old planned and committed murder, showing their capability to understand consequences. These juveniles were tried as adults and received life sentences. The document argues that regardless of age or brain development, if one takes someone's life then they should be held fully accountable and face life in prison, as killing cannot be justified or undone.

    Original Title

    juvenile justice - alexandra dupleich

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    The document discusses the issue of whether juveniles who commit murder should be tried as adults and face life in prison. It presents several cases where juveniles as young as 12 and 13 years old planned and committed murder, showing their capability to understand consequences. These juveniles were tried as adults and received life sentences. The document argues that regardless of age or brain development, if one takes someone's life then they should be held fully accountable and face life in prison, as killing cannot be justified or undone.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    135 views4 pages

    Juvenile Justice - Alexandra Dupleich

    Uploaded by

    api-360554161
    The document discusses the issue of whether juveniles who commit murder should be tried as adults and face life in prison. It presents several cases where juveniles as young as 12 and 13 years old planned and committed murder, showing their capability to understand consequences. These juveniles were tried as adults and received life sentences. The document argues that regardless of age or brain development, if one takes someone's life then they should be held fully accountable and face life in prison, as killing cannot be justified or undone.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    of 4

    Dupleich, 1

    Dupleich, Alex

    Ms. Marcum

    ERWC Period

    6 March 2017

    Juvenile Justice

    Juvenile Justice is a large controversy today. The question is, should juveniles should be

    charged as adults or not and should life in prison be a solution to teen killers? Killing somebody

    can not be justified by anything. Once you kill somebody, there are no take backs or Im

    sorries because once they are gone they are not coming back. There are many cases that support

    this issue, because ultimately despite your age, or whether the crime was planned or spontaneous

    everybody is held equally accountable for what they do. Juveniles should be tried as adults and

    face life in prison for murder because regardless of any circumstance, everybody should be held

    equally accountable for their actions.

    In many cases the crimes and murders are planned and well thought out rather than just a

    killing out of anger. Thirteen year old Brazil shot and killed his english teacher because he was

    not aloud to say goodbye to two girls who were leaving school. Killing somebody that day had to

    have been thought out out by Brazil in some way if the young boy had a gun at school with him

    in the first place. In the article Startling Finds on Teenage Brains, Paul Thompson gives insight

    on Brazil and how he knows it was a stupid mistake. Although Brazil is far from adulthood

    and recognized what he did was wrong, the prosecutors did not let that have any say on his

    sentence because he was still charged as an adult and is sentenced to life in prison without

    parole. In the documentary Lost for Life sixteen year olds Brian and Torrie planned the killing
    Dupleich, 2

    of their good friend cassie that they attended high school with. The two boys had video footage

    of them on their way to kill cassie and after they stabbed her to death. Both boys are now

    twenty-one serving life in prison. Both killings were completely planned by juveniles which

    shows their capability and shows that they were held accountable for what they did.

    Anybody who commits a crime as brutal as murder should be held equally accountable

    regardless of any circumstance. Whether you are twelve years old or twenty eight years old, if

    you kill somebody you should be getting sent away. Lionel Tate beat a six year old little girl to

    death and is now facing life in prision. Marjie Lundstrom discusses how Tate supposedly was

    imitating his world Wrestling Federation heros when he plumbed his playmate in her article

    Kids are Kids- Until They Commit Crimes. Tate only twelve years old faced the same charges as

    Gary Fellenbaum who was twenty eight when he beat and killed his girlfriend's three year old

    son. NBC Philadelphia news talks about the casesLittle Scotty McMillan is dead and states A

    mother's boyfriend tortured a three year old boy to death, hanging him upside down by his feet,

    striking him with a whip, taping him to a chair and beating him so badly that when he finally

    wound up in an emergency room nurses wept. Fellenbaum was charged with first and third

    degree murder and was looking at life in prision. Regardless of your age, everybody is going to

    be held equally accountable for their actions.

    Some people believe that juveniles should not be tried as adults and should not face life

    in prision. They believe that everybody deserves a second chance to fix their mistakes and show

    their worth, but if you take somebody else's life do you really think it's fair you should be able to

    continue living yours day to day? Studies show that the brain is not fully developed until later
    Dupleich, 3

    years in life and having a undeveloped brain should justify killing somebody but if that is the

    case then why are their so adults who commit murder as well.

    Overall, murder cannot be justified by anything. Not your age, or the way your brain is

    developed, or whether the crime is planned or spontaneous. If you kill somebody when you are

    either twelve or fifty you should be put in prision and stay their for the rest of your life. Once a

    person is gone, there is no bringing them back.


    Dupleich, 4

    Works Cited

    1. Documentary: Lost for Life

    2. Kids are Kids-Until They commit crimes By: Marjie Lundstrom\

    3. Startling Finds on Teenage Brains By: Paul Thompson

    4. NBC News Philadelphia

    You might also like