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How Does Tate Deserve Life Without Parole

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Bailey Bordas
Ms. Becker
ERWC 1
May 7, 2018
Juvenile Justice My position on this topic is that kids should not be sentenced with life without parole unless it was an intentional planned out murder. Kids accidentally kill another human and get life without parole when they are as young at twelve years old. That isn't right because a kid that young does not know what is right or wrong so they just do it. A young kid should only be sentenced to life without parole if it was planned but other than that they should never receive that sentence. A twelve year old boy by the name of Lionel Tate beat a six year old girl to death. Tate claimed he was imitating his favorite wrestling move on her. Does this crime deserve life in prison without parole? I don't think this deserves a life sentence. Tate was a twelve year old kid who didn't know he was hurting this little girl. He thought they were having fun wrestling and doing wrestling moves. Lionel Tate was way too young to go to prison for life but they gave him the life sentence without parole. Research says that the brain hasn't fully developed especially at that age. How is Tate …show more content…

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