To me the children of today don’t care if they kill someone and they would not go to jail because their age. They are robbing older people, and breaking in to people thinking that they are not going to jail. The first source that I have found on the website is WWW.time.com/ By Time, and it was written (By Jessica, Reaves in 2001, 17 may) that should the law treat kids and adults differently. What I had read (By Jessica, Reaves) there was a 14 years-old Nathaniel Brazil was charged with second-degree murder for killing his teacher. And in Florida jury had gave a 14 year-old boy who killed a girl while playing wresting moves on her, and now will be life in prison without parole.
Stanford v Kentucky was a United States Supreme court case that dealt with the imposition of the death penalty on offenders who were at least sixteen years old at the time the crime was committed. Stanford was 17 years old at the time he committed murder in Kentucky. On January 17, 1981, Stanford and an accomplice repeatedly raped and sodomized twenty year old Barpel Poore during and after their robbery at the gas station Poore worked at. Hearings were held to decide on whether Stanford’s case should be held in Juvenile court or adult. The juvenile court did make the decision to transfer his case, therefore; Stanford would be trialed as an adult under a state statute permitting such action as to offenders who are either charged with a class A felony, capital crime or anyone over the age of sixteen and charged with a felony.
In 1975 Ted was arrested in Utah but was released due to the little evidence, Two years later was convicted of kidnapping and escaped. Ted Bundy killed three people in Florida and was arrested but his parents bailed him out and he sold his car but police impounded it away from new owner. It was then when forensic evidence finally solved this case by finding three different hairs matching the three victims killed in Ted’s car and matched his teeth marks the a bite mark on one of the victims. He was then was sentenced to three death penalties in 1978 when Ted was recaptured and on January 24, 1989 at Railford prison in Starke, Florida Ted Bundy was executed in the electric chair. My opinion on this case was interesting yet disgusting but Ted Bundy was smart about how he attracted his victims.
Bonnie smuggled him a gun and helped him escape (Barrow 1). Upon his recapture, he was jailed for two years. Bonnie and Clyde evolved from their small crimes to “nationally known bank robbers and murderers” (Barrow 1). Their gang was believed responsible for killing thirteen people including two police men plus several robberies and burglaries and assorted kidnapping, abduction, and injuries (Barrow 1). One day Clyde and Bonnie were driving down a back road near their hideout at Bienville Parish, Louisiana; officers led by captain Frank
The encounter ends with Brown on the ground with 8 shots in him. What happened that made the officer shoot the teen though? St. Louis County Police Chief Joe Belmar claims “Brown physically assaulted the officer, and during a struggle between the two, Brown reached for the officer's gun. One shot was fired within the car followed by other gunshots outside of the car (Gannett).” How could we possibly know if this was what actually happened though? For all we know the officer is making this story up to protect his career from a possible mistake that he made.
In the state of Wisconsin in 1992, Felicia Morgan was seventeen-years-old when she was tried as an adult for first-degree murder. Her attorney, Robin Shellow, argued the “Ghetto Defense.” After being raised around extreme amounts of violence and developing PTSD as a result of this violence, this defense was thought to be the most appropriate for her crime. However, it did
Pate. A mentally handicapped 19 year old was arrested for suspicion of stealing bikes. The police interrogated him for four days in large groups, with the teen’s hearing aid, he was sick, he wasn’t being adequately fed, and he was without council or his parents. After four days he confessed to being part of a murder, and was sentenced to 199 years. The court did recognize however that the boy was coerced and that the state violated the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by using his written statements as evidence in his
At 12:30 am, Officers Tim and Melanie Singer, husband-and-wife members of the California Highway Patrol, noticed King's car speeding on the freeway. The officers pursued King, and the pursuit attained high speeds. Confrontation Officer Tim Singer ordered King and his two passengers to exit the vehicle and lie face down on the ground. Bryant Allen was manhandled, kicked, stomped, taunted and threatened. "Passenger describes L.A. Police Beating of Driver, Calls it racial," New York Times, March 21, 1991.
In these days, suicide between teenagers is a crucial problem all over the world. This chapter of the book explains about teenage kid’s suicide. The author begins the chapter with the example of 4 teenagers driving a 10 years old Camero into the garage of an apartment complex and gassed themselves to death. The author identified these kids with low class status teenagers. These teenagers were called burnouts.
For example, 13 year old Jordan Brown of Pennsylvania was being tried on the murder of his father pregnant fiancé back in 2009. “Amnesty International has urged US authorities in Pennsylvania not to try Jordan in an adult court, as doing so could result in a violation of international law. If tried as an adult and convicted of first-degree murder, he would face life imprisonment without parole” ("AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL"). It is only right to sentence Jordan to life in prison because of his actions. He did not only kill his father’s pregnant fiancé, he also murdered their unborn child.