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Teens Should Be Sentenced To Life Without Parole Essay

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Juveniles Sentenced to Life Without Parole The idea of teens being charged as adults is a topic that is always debated on. There has been many court cases in which teens who have committed a crime have been sentenced as adults. Some of these cases then lead to the teen being charged to life in prison without parole. Do you think a teen should live the rest of his life without being able to get a second chance? Well I personally believe that depending on the certain circumstances the teen should not be charged to life without parole. These certain circumstances include the teens brain development and the teens environment he or she was raised in. These two factors is what determines if the teen should be charged as an adult and spend the life in prison without parole. Studies have shown that the human brain isn’t fully developed until the age of twenty-five. Since the human brain isn’t fully developed until the age of twenty-five, this shows how people who are younger than the age of twenty-five still have many things to learn until their brain is fully developed. It's said that your teen years are your most vulnerable years of your life. By vulnerable I mean you can be manipulated into doing things you don’t want to do and you don't have the capability to think twice before you do something, they let their emotions …show more content…

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“Thump! The jury finds you guilty! Three life sentences without parole!” the young boys and girls that hear this sentence generally aren’t considered the best of kids, however locking away a juvenile for life takes much more thought than it takes to address this sentence to a legal adult. In “Locked Away Forever” by Patricia Smith the question is attempted to be answered, which is should juveniles receive life sentences without chance of parole?

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It also has to be taken into consideration that children who commit these crimes should not be placed with adults as it will severely hurt their rehabilitation. In the article Juvenile Justice: Can Young Criminals Be Reformed? On Commonlit and Written by Carl Stoffers published by The New York Times Upfront December 11, 2017. This article mentions Noah Schultz, a teen who moved out of an adult jail to a juvenile center "Most of my clients had never heard of life imprisonment without parole and had no capacity to appreciate what it would mean," (Stoffers 35-36).

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Imagine a child of six years committing a heinous crime, and the child is sentenced to life in prison without the slightest possibility of parole. Countless people will argue that the child should not be sentenced to life because his/her mind is not entirely developed, and the juvenile has the ability to be transformed into a preferred (productive?) individual of society. This is a greater preference because children are the next generation and should be salvaged rather than become a “lost cause”. However, numerous people will argue otherwise if a teenager committed the same heinous crime as the child.

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