Since the turn of the century, when juvenile courts were put in effect, there have been instances where juveniles have been tired as adults. Few states used this method to deal with the worst of the juvenile cases, while the juvenile court was still reserves for the remainder. Gradually, other states began to also use this method of transferring juveniles into adult courts. If their crime was too heinous or the juvenile court could not handle them, they were transferred. During recent years, an increasing number of juvenile offenders have been transferred out of the juvenile and into the adult courts. By the 1990's, every state had some

If any one from the ages 10 to 17 has planned to kill someone and actually goes through with it. You would think that they are old enough to know that if you point a gun at someone and pull the trigger, it will either injure or kill the person. Maybe they have planned to kill a person in a different way, like lighting a house on fire, beating the person with a baseball bat, or maybe even stabbing a person with a knife. A kid at the age of ten knows that any one of these things can hurt a person. Here is an example of a juvenile that should be tired as an adult. 11-year-old Nathaniel Abraham was convicted of second-degree murder. Nathaniel shot 18-year-old Ronnie Greene on October 29, 1997. Nathaniel had been shooting at trees and had hit the man. Nathaniel told friends he had planned to shoot someone, borrowed a gun, and bragged about the killing afterward. At the age of 10, Nathaniel had 22 run-ins with police for arson, assault, and breaking and entering. Nathaniel had once beaten a 14-year-old child over the head with a steel pipe (Adult Time). For everything that Nathaniel has done he should be sentenced as an adult would be sentenced. During the 1990's, between 5,000 and 6,000 children committed violent crimes. Here are a few examples of these cases. At the age 15, Kip Kinkel, fatally shot his parents at home and then killed two students at a Springfield, Oreg. High school. When he was convicted of the crime he was 17 and he got life in prison. Could you imagine the pain, anger and frustration that the parents of the two students that were shot and killed at school are feeling? At the age of 14, Donna Ratliff, killed her mother and sister after setting their house on fire. How could a jury not transfer cases like this to an adult court. These Juveniles all knew what they are doing. I personally think it is wrong to kill ano

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