The one thing the US has in common with Somalia?
The US is the only country where juveniles are serving life imprisonment without parole under the so-called “life means life” policy. Only the US and Somalia have refused to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which rules out life sentences with no chance of release for crimes committed before the age of 18.
An American boy, Jordan Brown, might be tried as an adult for killing his father’s pregnant fiancee.
Brown is accused of having killed Kenzie Houk, in February 2009 at her home in the countryside about 35 miles north-west of Pittsburgh. According to the prosecution, Brown shot her through the back of the head as she slept in her bedroom.
He is then alleged to have got on the school bus and gone to his elementary school as usual.
Houk, 26, was just two weeks away from her due date and her unborn child, who would have been called Christopher, died too. Brown has been charged with two counts of homicide.
Brown was 11 when he shot his father’s pregnant fiancee in the head with a gun that came out of nowhere and returned to nowhere. The gun happened to be in his hand. The gun happened to be in the house. The gun just happened.
Killers should be killed themselves, regardless of age. Instead we just lock them up, spend millions “rehabilitating” them, and they just do it again when they get out. This kid will too. Off the piece of garbage.
So, you really don’t have anything new to contribute over and beyond Dan’s post on exactly the same subject nearly two hours earlier?
Do you even READ SLOG anymore, Charles?
According to the linked story, the gun was the boy’s own, a specially-made hunting rifle for children. The fact that he was (ostensibly) allowed to keep it in his possession, loaded and unsupervised, should not be overlooked. Shitty parenting at it’s finest.
You’ve got to love that these cretins can’t even be bothered to read their own blog.
There’s a gun in every house in America but yours and mine, Charles.
Absent the gun, who thinks he would have killed her?
I think I saw Michelle Bachman slinking away, Max …
Hey everyone, I just found a story about how the U.S. and Somalia are the only two countries that would try a child as an adult!
It revolves around an 11 year old kid who killed his stepmom here.
SLOG should contact me if it wants to post it.
@1: It actually costs more to go through all the requisite appeals for a death penalty case than it would to just lock the guy up for life. And sure, you could cut down on the appeals, but we’d probably end up with states other than Texas executing innocent people.