2 years ago
No Country For Young Men
I could spend all day and night detailing the woes of the American judicial system, but I will focus on one troubling issue, that being the lack of options given to prosecutors when trying young minors accused of murder or other capital offenses. I am writing this in reaction to a recent Pittsburgh murder case where a 12-year-old boy shot and killed his father’s fiancé and has been subsequently charged as an adult.
Under PA law, if a prosecutor decides a child can be rehabilitated, he may chose to charge the minor as a juvenile and the child would be incarcerated in a juvenile detention center until the age of 21. At this point the perpetrator
