Seventeen year old, commits murder and believes he can get away with it. We'll set this as the scenario, in a state that believes the death penalty of a juvenile is alright. Only nineteen states believe in this law, the others completely disregard it if the offender is under the age of eighteen at the time of the crime. Yet why, if you commit the murder you should be ready to serve the time.
Being so young and committing murder is a very wrong thing to do, yet you do know what you are doing. Many children have an abusive childhood and think that what their own parents due to them is okay to do to others. Obviously it is not, and that is no excuse to make it okay for them to not receive some type of serious punishment. Although receiving the death penalty under the age of eighteen is a little unreal.
Yet, if you commit the murder when you are under the age of eighteen but would not receive the death penalty until ten or twenty years later is a different story. Some way or another you need to receive the correct punishment for what you did, no matter how old you are. Whether it is almost life in jail, or a very very long time. And sometimes even in certain cases, the death penalty may be necessary no matter how old you were when you committed the crime.
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