Do you think juveniles who commit murders should be try as adults and receive capital punishment?

Question

I'm talking about, from 5 yrs old to 17 years old. This is a homework for school, and I have to agree or disagree ...in your answers depent my success. I'm not bias.
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Answer 1

No, I don't agree with that...children often mimic what adults do, and they may think it's right, or they might be afraid and they think there's no one to help them. Sometimes that IS the case, we often overlook those who are being abused, because the kid is too afraid to talk and sometimes we just say they just want attention. It also depends on the situation, like if a 17-year-old was driving drunk and killed someone, then he should get some sort of punishment. I do not believe in the death penalty, though-not even for adult prisoners.

Answer 2

Why is there more emphasis on the predator than the victim? For some reason the person murdered gets forgotten and pretty much blown over. If a 5 years old murdered someone, then what is that child going to be like when they grow up? To say that a child doesn’t know the consequences of their actions is BS. If they don’t understand what they are doing, then why do they try and hide what they did? Why don’t they come home and say, “Mommy, guess what I did!” I would be interested to see what reaction you would get if you asked this question and instead of human life, make it the death of an animal. If Johnny went around killing small animals, would people be as compassionate? Murder is not accidental death. Should we allow those kids that shoot up their schools to be tried as juveniles and then released at 25? What about the 13 year old who went to the Elementary school and starting picking off children with her new rifle? If anyone premeditates the murder of any individual, be they 5 or be they 17, that means intent, which means they KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING. Serial killers gotta start somewhere. And if the parent doesn’t do anything about this budding psychopath, then they should be held responsible as well.

Answer 3

Yes most of them should be held accountable for there actions, however, between ages 5 and 15, I don't believe so, life struggles and peer pressure might have caused them to reach elsewhere to get love and attention and turned them down another path of murder. I am wondering why don't we have more programs to *correct life*.. We like to deal with a problem when it has happened, what about before the problem occurs. Who should really be punished? The parents for not taking the time out to know how there child is living? The GOV for not having an answer to the every day problem? Our children learn by examples. Juveniles are just that, it defines where and why they are where they are. Placing them in CYA or an Adult Prison, are we helping the child that was looking for help in the first place? Age is nothing but a number, you can be 30 and your mind is like a 2 year old and guess what no one took the time to even see you have a knowledge problem.. The system is jacked up.. Big dogs calling all the wrong shots becauses it not there problem

Answer 4

There's a BIG difference between a 5yo and a 17yo.

Dependant upon the seriousness of the murder, I say why not? Why should a Blood/Crip who murders for HIS homework, or for fun, be given a break? Teenagers are much more sophisticated and intelligent than they were in even the 1980's.

They should be liable for the life they ended by giving theirs.

Maybe this way at least we avoid losing ANOTHER innocent VICTIM.

Capital punishment is a GREAT deterrant- THAT murderer NEVER murders again.

Answer 5

No. The courts have already acknowledge that juvenilles are not capable of reasoning at a high enough level to truly know the consequences of thier actions. That is why the Juvenille court system was created in the first place. If you are going to try juvenille defenders as adults you may as well do away with the jevenille justice system entirely.

Answer 6

It depends because the question of any form of extreme punishment, especially capital punishment requires individual treatment of every case. In my view, some juvenile killers could be awarded capital punishment lateron because the crime may not have been as unintentional as may seem to be. Still, I will say that in the case of juveniles as well as adults valid reasons behind crime should always be considered like self defence before going in for any extreme form of punishment like capital punishment.

Answer 7

You play, you pay is stable, to a level. There are constantly extenuating circumstances. very few homicide circumstances contain the death sentence. even however, with that pronounced, if a fifteen - sixteen year previous commits the brutal, pre-planned, variety of homicide that does fall into the death sentence type, and there have been no extenuating circumstances. Then they ought to obtain the comparable punishment as though a 20 - 21 year previous did that crime.

Answer 8

I say yes. bcoz no matter how old this person is. he/she committed this crime. and he/she has to take full responsibility for doing it.

age is just a number. if a angry teenager kills his mother, why can't he take the full responsiblity? why should he be walking down the street couple years after like nothing happened and decided to kill his father?

if somebody commits a crime, he should get punished, not rewarded or protected.

Answer 9

Yes, definitely yes. If you do the crime you have to do the time. This is why we're in the shape that we're in currently. Because of this law older misfits take advantage and use kids to do their dirty work and they get off Scott free.

Answer 10

I think it all depends on their maturity. They should be examined by a psychologist, and if they are found to know what they did was wrong, then yes I do. But if they are found that they had no idea what they did was wrong, then no. If they were defending themselves, then no.
Basically, it all depends on the individual.