Analysis: Should Teens Be Tried As Adults

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Should Teens be tried as Adults

Life is precious and we live it only once, however, what we do with it is at our own discretion. Therefore, it is a tragic that many people at younger ages decide to live a life of misdeeds and become what we call juvenile criminals, but, every action in this world has a consequence and to deal with these unlawful adolescent we have the Juvenile Justice Department. Conversely the juvenile justice system is a network of trained agencies that deal with juveniles whose conduct has come in conflict with the law. When young offenders commit a series of crimes, constantly being in trouble with the law, they are waived into Adult court where they will be subject to any punishment available. In some cases, …show more content…

During the 1990’s there has been a case of a teen that killed them in Suburban Chicago. After Jennifer’s sister husband died the mother begged for the life of her unborn child as the teen shot her. The teen reported what he had done to his friend , who testified at his trial, about his “thrill kill” that he just wanted to ”see what it would feel like to shoot someone”. In another article called “10 Murders Committed By Minors” by Amanda tells you a crime that a girl commit named Melinda Loveless she was jealous of the friendship forming between 12-year-old Shanda Renee Sharer and her former girlfriend, Amanda Heavrin, so the 16-year-old decided to do something about it. Melinda and her friends went in a car to pick up Sharer from her house to “hang out”. Loveness was in the backseat of car under a blanket with a knife and hold her hostage with the knife to the throat and took her to a garbage dump where they threw Sharer to the ground and started to torture her by taking turns on cutting, stabbing with a dull knife and knocking her unconscious with a metal pipe. They started to laugh on what they to her did and pour gasoline on Sharer while she was still unconscious and burn her alive, so do you still think Juveniles shouldn’t be tried as adults when they commit violent

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