Should 15 year old be faced with life in prison???

Question

Eric Hainstock was a 15 now 16 year old boy who was convicted monday morning as an adult with 1st degree intentional homicide for the killing of his principal! He has been charged for life in prison with possibility for parol in 30 years! When i first heard about this i agreed that was descent for a murderer but then i saw the entire trial and my whole oppinion changed this boy was teased and made fun of in school. you may say yeah well thats just life but thats not all he was also sexually molested by his brother and physically abused by his father whome had earlier been charged with battery! He was not appreciated in house for anything except taking care of his parents. Eric was sent to school dirty very often and one time showed up without a shirt on only a jacket please read the whole story and sign the petition to get him moved to a rehabilitation center

http://www.petitionsdirect.com/showpetition.php?id=justiceforjuveniles

Eric Hainstock was a 15 now 16 year old boy who was convicted monday morning as an adult with 1st degree intentional homicide for the killing of his principal! He has been charged for life in prison! When i first heard about this i agreed that was descent for a murderer but then i saw the entire trial and my whole oppinion changed this boy was teased and made fun of in school. you may say yeah well thats just life but thats not all he was also sexually molested by his brother and physically abused by his father whome had earlier been charged with battery! He was not appreciated in house for anything except taking care of his parents. Eric was sent to school dirty very often and one time showed up without a shirt on only a jacket please read the whole story and sign the petition to get him moved to a rehabilitation center

http://www.petitionsdirect.com/showpetition.php?id=justiceforjuveniles.org&title=The+Boy+No+One+Cared+About%2FSave+Eric+Hainstock

There is a lot more to it than just being bullyed and if you will read the story you will see that he did seek help from the school more than once his parents refused to let him go to special schools or anything he also tried to live with his grandparents and his parents wouldnt let him because they would have no one to tie their shoes and clean the ran down house!! ps the link in the first details is wrong please use the second link

Answer 1

The State law allows prosecution of persons under 18 to be tried as adults for certain crimes. Murder is (and should be) one of them. Are you saying that if the kid was 18 that he somehow becomes more culpable? This is not a ten year old we are talking about. He's a murderer. Pure and simple. The old saying is "If you do a man's crime, you do a man's time." I fully believe in that. Oh Boo-Hoo. I got bullied in school.

Let me go whack the principal?

Sorry. Does not compute.

EDIT:

A lot more than bullying? There is NOTHING in this scenario that justifies a murder. He knew what he was doing and he did it intentionally. A huge problem in this country is that kids are so fragile because of the way they are raised its becoming very dangerous. The things kids think justifiy this kind of action are petty school pranks and prods. Just as they have always been. But in this video game world where there is no reality and no consequence, violence is becoming the way of choice to resolve issues. If we allow kids to get off with juvenile sentences for MAJOR crime, we are as a society condoning murder. And that's wrong.

Bullying? This murderer is about to find out what that REALLY is. In a place where his fragile eggshell mind is not going to get any sympathy. Tragic? Sure. But not any more tragic than if he were 18 when he decided to become a murderer. It WAS a choice. Like most people in prison for murder, it's a choice he will regret for a very long time.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Everyone should get a maximum five year sentence. After their intial sentencing, each person should see a parole board and get reviewed. At that time the parole board should be able to look at the case and make a new decision. Some people would still be in jail for life due to their original crimes but at least time would be given to the case and to the analysis of the person's character to make a better decision as to whether the person should stay on.

This would be very threatening to the people sentenced to just one year in jail. If they don't prove to society they they have change their ways they could very easily be kept in for one more year. The people with the maximum sentences would face five more year until they get another review and the opportunity to leave.

Everyone would have some hope in their hearts but of course for some they'd have to prove a lot not to get resentenced to another tour of duty in jail.

Answer 4

Being bullied should always be taken into consideration during a sentencing. Other people get charges reduced or alternatives for "temporary insanity" and I see it as the same thing. What is the point of having juvenile court if they can just change the rules whenever they want and charge juveniles as adults?

Answer 5

I'm sorry but if every kid who is teased and molested goes a rampage and kills someone, our rehabilitation centres would be bursting at the seams.

He could of sought help within the school system, and begged for someone to get him out of the situation.

Why should he be allowed to kill someone and not do the time that he was given.

Answer 6

The short answer is an unqualified YES. The details follow....

Students and acquaintances of Hainstock's family had described him as a troubled and eccentric child who took pride in being in trouble with authority. Furthermore, on the day prior to the shooting, the school principal John Klang gave Hainstock a disciplinary warning for having tobacco on school grounds.

Eyewitness accounts state Hainstock walk purposefully across the parking lot with a shotgun in his hands.

Hainstock flung open the door and Keller immediately confronted him, asking what he intended to do with his gun.

"'I'm going to kill somebody,'" Thompson remembered Hainstock saying, calmly pointing the muzzle inches from Keller's face.

hompson, a lifelong hunter, seized the barrel of the gun and swung the slightly built Hainstock around, wrenching the gun from his grasp.

Moving away, Hainstock started fumbling with his clothes as if reaching for another gun. Thompson yelled at Keller that Hainstock was probably still armed. "We both went in a hurry both ways," he said, Thompson out the front door with the shotgun to call 911, and Keller into the main office to call a "code blue" over the school's public address system.

The code was the prompt for teachers to lock their rooms, turn out the lights and move students away from doors and windows.

Hainstock pulled out a .22 caliber handgun and Klang stepped into the hallway to block his path.

Klang ordered Hainstock to stop.

Checking to see what the commotion was, teacher Corey Brunett looked out of his classroom to see Klang and Hainstock wrestling. Klang was behind Hainstock holding his right arm.

At some point, three shots were fired.

After Brunett checked on his students, he returned to his door to see Klang and Hainstock fall to the floor, with a bleeding Klang holding Hainstock in a bear hug. As others ran to help subdue Hainstock, Burnett saw Klang sweep the gun away, despite being shot three times, in the head, left leg and chest.

Answer 7

im sorry but no matter what thats still not good enough to kill someone just because of those things happened doesnt mean its ok or anything it takes a sick person to kill someone and at such a young age to kill someone is even worse that boy is a danger to the community as well as him self

Answer 8

Its pretty harsh i do agree, but it cant be changed now.
He had the decision to do different things, such as seek help such as counseling, but instead he made the wrong choices which can lead to severe consequences.

Answer 9

Lets not forget, Murder is a unthinkable act. Would you have such a bleeding heart if it was your father he killed?

Maybe if he killed brother & father I could muster some compasion for him.

Answer 10

Why the principal? Sounds like he'smessed up enough to kill again. it stinks, but maube he shouln't be sitting next to us in public when he snaps again.