When Kids Get Life

Jordan Brown is a juvenile offender who was charged with the death of his Father’s pregnant fiancée and her unborn son. In Pennsylvania, 2009, Brown was taken to court and found guilty. Because he was under 12 years old, he was sent to a juvenile facility rather than an adult prison. Due to Roper (a law that prevents juveniles from being sentenced to the death penalty), his life was spared. The question as to how to sentence juvenile offenders still has many different answers.

Joni was one of the few victims to survive an attack by Ted Bundy, a serial rapist and murderer who had victimised women as young as twelve. Investigations revealed that he assaulted thirty-six women, but nobody will ever know the exact number that fell victim to Bundy. It is a number he carried to his grave. Capital punishment is defined as the imposition of death upon a person convicted in a court of law. It is a legal infliction and it has been used to punish a wide variety of offences but nowadays, restricted to murder or treason.

Larry was killed and the person who shot him now has to throw away his life by spending more than two decades in prison. And the thing is that Larry will never come back, no matter how many years Brandon is put in jail for. Like I said before what Brandon did was wrong and receiving a slap on the wrist isn’t a sufficient punishment. He has to suffer the consequences of his actions. The only that can come out of this is a lesson.

The only witnesses were his three supposedly called friends; blaming the crime all on him. The judge choose to believe those three criminals. Roy’s defense attorney put a young women on the stand, she then confessed she heard Demetrius and his sister arguing; Demetrius in the argument confessed that [he indeed killed Kevin Gardener, and blamed it on Roy] the sister immediately testified afterwards confirming what the other young lady had said before (Kuklin 17). The judge did not believe being based that the judge had the testimony of the three guys. Kash Delano Register was sentence to 27 years of life in prison for supposedly killing 78 year-old Jack Sasson in April of 1979.

The court system back then believed that if enough evidence could be gathered to convince a jury, the underage person would be convicted and sent to an adult prison. Currently in our state, persons as young as 14 can be tried as an adult, due to the effects of Emily’s law. Emily’s law was created when her parents left her with a babysitting company, and the owner’s 13 year old son raped the 2 year old and threw her against the wall. She then died on impact.Throughout the harshness of sentencing juveniles, a court specified for juvenile delinquents was created in 1899. Trying juveniles as adults is too severe, because the charges set against them are unjust.

If the juvenile gets sent to a juvenile detention center for murder they will live their lives there until they are twenty one, but if tried as an adult they will serve so many years in prison. There is a grey area of law for certain teens that commit serious crimes. In this case of the grey law, each state gets to decide upon the particular state how they person is tried. For most cases pertaining to the juvenile courts are case by case bases. Many believe that it isn’t fair for the teens to be locked up with adults.

Jordan Brown, now 12, is currently awaiting trial for the murder of his father’s pregnant girlfriend, where he will be tried as an adult for both the murder of the woman and the fetus. What were the factors that decided Manny and Jordan’s case would be tried as adults? Manny and Jordan’s case went to adult court, while other children and teenagers are tried and sentenced in the juvenile system. The court systems have criteria for trying children as adults, taking into account different factors within the crimes themselves. How exactly does th... ... middle of paper ... ... in some cases for the rest of their life could be the answer to showing kids this is not a game.

Charles Manson was born on November 12, 1934 is a serial killer who spearheaded a murderous campaign with his followers, the Manson Family cult. Famous for the brutal murders of actress Sharon Tate and other Hollywood residents, Manson was never actually found guilty of committing the murders himself. He was However, because of the terrible crimes he forced others to commit made him a living figure of evil. Charles Mason first lived in Ohio with his mother was Kathleen Maddox a 16 year old girl that had been an alcoholic and prostitute. She married a man William Manson, but the marriage didn’t last long and Charles was placed in a boys school.

The moment he got in the house he met face to face with the owner of the house whose name is Shirley Ann Crook, who was forty-six years old now of the crime. To make sure that Shirley Ann Crook will not recognize him the boy bound her with an electrical cord and a duct tape, transported her in a car and threw her into the river of Meramec. Shirley Ann Crook died from drowning. Mr. Simmons committed the whole crime with a fifteen-year-old friend Charles Benjamin. Therefore, Charles Benjamin was sentences to life in prison, as he was not old enough for death penalty.

In America, teenagers under the age of 18 cannot drink, vote, or sit on a jury, yet they can be sentenced to death if convicted of a crime. What these children need is rehabilitation, guidance and most importantly given a second change to mend what they did as impulsive children. On the other hand, family victims often call for the death penalty because their sibling/child had no right to die in the hands of a murderer. Since this person took their life, the family should have the right to lawfully take the murder’s life. Life in prison is not always enough for them because they have an opportunity to leave on parole, and the thought of these murderous monsters being released into society again horrifies these families, thus they call for execution.