When you turn a certain age, you gain certain privileges. You achieve certain rewards such as voting rights, the ability to purchase a house, and tobacco products. Most importantly teenagers need the ability to be held responsible for their actions. However, teenagers need to own up to their mistakes and face the consequences because they know what they are doing; they are no longer children who need their hand held by their parents. The age eighteen sounds magical, right? You are considered as an adult, which is a big deal for teens. Most eighteen year olds are not happy about is the fact that they are no longer tried for crimes in juvenile courts. Does one or two years younger than eighteen make a difference is my question. Is it fair for …show more content…
Also if teenagers who commit murder where tried as adults, the number of murder crimes committed by youths would decline. Consequently, in the future the violent crimes in general would decline. Also put yourself in a mother’s position, if your son or daughter just died how would you want their killer to be punished? How would you feel if you never got to see your child again while their killer got a short sentence and can get out and live their life but took your child life forever? Some people believe that we should stop putting teens in adult prison; they believe we should be lenient with them. If teenagers can commit murder like adults, stop treating them like they don’t know any better and serve them with the time they deserve. Some people say morals are learned; others say it’s inherited. Regardless a murder is a murder, you can’t force anybody to kill. A murder is always a murder no matter of age, so if you murder at any age, you should be tried as an adult and possibly face