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Originally posted by Vampyre
How can a 12 year old murder people and not know any better? If they're smart enough to be responsible for someone's murder, they know enough about what they're doing. Thus, they're only gonna get worse. And this is particularly true if it's first degree. You can't plot out someone's murder and not know any better. I mean it's not liek somebody just sits there and then goes \"Holy crap, I just drew out a schematic map of somebody's house, broke into it, strangled them to death with gloves on and escaped all in just 10 minutes and I don't remember any of it!\"
If they don't understand what went on during the murder, then they'd understand it during the trial. If not, then they'll just go \"Hey, I killed somebody and nothing happened. Wonder what'd happen if I killed two more people?\" And then they go off into a killing spree until someone finally cuts them down.
And a charge that would result in the death sentence would probably have to be 1st degree murder or multiple murders. Nobody can commit those kind of acts without knowing what they're doing. Even a mentally ill person is still responsible. Then again I think the mental illness is not an excuse, because that doesn't change the fact that they killed somebody.
Whoa man hang on, a 12 year old? I can see a life sentence for that, and no fucking judge would let him off without a damned thing, but jesus, killing him for it? A life sentence, yes... but a DEATH sentence? ... The kid barely had a chance to live his life, but he decided to fuck it up, so he gets put in jail for the rest of it. At least he got to