Juveniles in American societies should encounter the responsibility and consequence of being tried as adults, despite their age, when committing unspeakable, heinous crimes. In Richard A. Serrano’s article, Young killers serving life without parole may get chance at freedom, he introduces reasons why it is acceptable for juveniles to be tried as adults. Seranno lists, seventeen-year-old Johnny Freeman “raped a five-year-old and tossed her from a fourteenth-story window,” sixteen-year-old Peter Saunders “bludgeoned an elderly woman, then from prison mailed a bomb-like device to a judge,” and sixteen-year-old David Biro “marched a husband and his pregnant wife down their basement stairs and shot them both” (Serrano, paragraph 12). Although…