Juveniles Should Be Tried As Adults Essay

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The eleven year old boy that you have been babysitting for a few years now just murdered another kid in his neighborhood because she made him mad and now is juvie waiting for his trial. The sentence for this kid gets can go a couple of ways. The three most known sentences are, a few years in juvie with probation afterwards, life in prison, and lastly the death penalty. Most of the time minors do not get the more severe punishments unless tried as adults. In my opinion juveniles, all under the age of eighteen, who commit murder should always be tried as an adult no matter the age because if they are able to make such life changing decisions they should be able to deal with the consequences. It is such a shock when a child at such a young …show more content…

A suggestion to the Supreme Court was to evaluate the juvenile’s cases individually (Barnes). I think that this would be the best thing to do because if you look at the cases that involved juveniles individually more carefully then you could see which minors should be truly tried as adults. No matter the age in any case where a minor takes a life they should be tried as adults because if they are let out on probation some could revert back to their old ways. Though this is not the case for every individual some reflect on what they did and take responsibility and change for the better others on the other hand, they fall back into the same bad patterns when given the chance. For example there is a story of a seventeen year old kid getting released two months after killing a child only to be accused of killing a elderly woman and robbing her (“Released 2 months”). The thing is that he was released from juvenile for “good behavior” and just pulls the same stunt. The problem with this is that we do not know for sure who has actually reflected off what they did and changed verses who just plans on doing the same thing that got them into trouble in the first

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