murder is murder that is planned out. Meaning a human being had studied and fore thought a murder attempt. Someone applied critical thinking to take the life of a living person. An adult or minor wanted to take the life of someone so correctly and perfectly they made a plan to do so. If a person was to plan out and purposely murder a living human being, then it should not matter if the murderer was an adult or a minor. They should a pay the same consequences.
If I was to put a lot of thought into murdering someone, then I would take the consequences that came with that crime. Age is just a number there are many minors who are smarter than adults in today’s world. There are fresh men in college at the age of seventeen which according to the law is considered an adult. Also there are adults that don’t even have their high school diploma, let alone any college education. “According to standard psychology, teens are susceptible to moodiness as they find a way to establish their own, independent identity” (Wilde). If someone would have successfully premeditated murder, then that someone must have been pretty intelligent. A young college student could easily commit premeditated murder. Say a young college student planned out a date, a time, and a place to construct a murder. Should that student face the same consequences as an adult? I think so because, that student had a list of plan and put thought in to the murder. Everyone should be treated equality in all aspects of life. That should include in the court house as well.
“If a teen is capable of committing a crime as horrible as any adult could commit, should they not be tried as adults? If they are allowed to walk free, what will their defenders say if they kill again? In this case, when a victim is lured into a remote area and then murdered, an obvious distinction arises. A teenager may be emotionally incompetent, and may commit unpredictable crimes of passion, but a premeditated murder...