No, probably not if they are nonviolent. A 13 or 14 year doesn’t have the maturity to make all the decision an adult makes well. They still have some morals, and probably should have known better than to do a crime worthy of lifelong imprisonment. However, at a young age, it doesn’t seem like many minors have a true understanding of what that sort of heavy punishment means. Even I don’t understand what it would feel like be in jail, much less for a time longer than I’ve already been alive.
However, according a different article on the EJI website, “Cruel and Unusual: Sentencing 13- and 14-Year-Old Children to Die in Prison,” in many of the cases where children are tried as adults, the judges do not chose to try children as adults. It was a
However, according a different article on the EJI website, “Cruel and Unusual: Sentencing 13- and 14-Year-Old Children to Die in Prison,” in many of the cases where children are tried as adults, the judges do not chose to try children as adults. It was a