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Juveniles Should Be Tried As Adults

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Children are not mature and sometimes are unaware of the consequences that have taken place due to their actions. Taking someone’s life can be very dangerous, but if you are young enough to commit an adult crime then you should be charged as an adult as well.

Teenagers should be tried as adults for the violent crimes that they commit. In today’s generation, there are a lot of crimes taking place. Adults aren’t the only ones that are committing the crimes, teenagers are as well. If you are old enough to do the crime, you are old enough to do the time. Juveniles should be responsible for their own actions and they should be held accountable for the decisions they make. Juveniles do violent things and don’t think twice about the …show more content…

Being incarcerated gives them a chance to grow as a person and mature. They are a danger to the environment. They can’t be trusted under any circumstances.It teaches them a life lesson. Years from the mistakes that they have made they will start to think before they do things. If an adult committed the same crime as a teenager, the teenager would get fewer years in jail just because of their age and that is unfair. Everyone should have an equal punishment. For example, a teenage boy was arrested for a fatal shooting of a 23-year-old man. On Friday morning 10:00 a.m. He took the life of Thomas Villanueva. The police received a description of the suspect riding a 4-wheeler leaving the scene. They stopped a 4-wheeler near the scene operated by 16-year-old Jonathan Moreno and took him into custody without incident. The 16-year-old, Jonathan Moreno was in custody and was tried as an adult for capital murder and abuse of the corpse. Jonathan Moreno took an innocent man’s life. Anisha Walker was known as a convicted murderer at just 14 years old. In prison, she was known as “Little Baby“ when she arrived. She grew up with multiple ages of women and some were twice her age. Walker was considered a murderer, even though she was a child at the time. She took responsibility for what she did. She shot a Nigerian immigrant Pedro Enemku in the head after selling him crack cocaine at an Arlington apartment complex. This is what she had

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