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Anissa Should Be Tried As Adults Essay

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Joey Carino
Mr. Overman
English 10
22 February 2022
Anissa Should be Tried as an Adult
Anissa Weier committed a serious crime and must pay the correct consequences for her actions. She committed an adult crime, in an adult way, and therefore deserves the adult punishment, and it would be unjust to Payton’s family if not. Taking into consideration the factors of her crime, she and her partner, Morgan Geyser, committed an atrocity of an act with serious intent to harm, and in a violent manner towards another person. She and her partner also took the time to plan this event for months, showing her mental maturity is strong and adult-like. Anissa is a threat to society, and too dangerous to be tried as a child for a shorter sentence. She does …show more content…

Anissa and her friend lured Payton to the woods, and brutally murdered her. They stabbed her repeatedly, up to 19 times in their intense attack, which is nothing a child would ever even think to do. Anissa, with full intent to do so, violently decided that she was going to take the life of one of her friends. Murder is the worst crime you can commit, and Anissa tried to take it to a whole new level by the way she carried out this terrible act. As well as the severity and manner of her crime, Anissa took time to plan out this attack with her partner for months before they actually carried it out. In an article written about this crime, it says during an interrogation by the police, “..the girls revealed they had been planning the attack for more than five months” (3). This shows a certain level of maturity that no child has. No child would plan out a crime with heinous detail for months on hand before they commit it. Anissa Weier made an adult decision and should suffer the appropriate consequences of her …show more content…

This can only happen if she is tried as an adult. Anissa is crazy and very dangerous. In the same article cited above, it was stated that Anissa and Morgan said they need to, “Go ballistic. Go crazy” (3). The girls said their crime was, “..was necessary to please slenderman” (3). Finally, one of the mothers of these daughters said they, “appear to have no remorse for what happened, and they talk about it in such a flat matter,” and were not frightened about what is going on” (3).
Even though Anissa was found perfectly sane by psychiatrists, people such as Jeff Dhamer and Ted Bundy were as well before their trials, and they all were public safety hazards. Anissa is crazy and she could quite possibly try and pull off a stunt of the likes of this again. Anissa is a dangerous woman and needs to be in jail for as long as possible for reasons of public

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