The 15-year-old testified Wednesday morning that the group had a habit of attacking homeless people – what they called "a lick" – and were looking for a victim in November when they found Brown.. they should all be tried as adults..THEY KNEW

Dan Cooper...how do you know I dont care about the boys? How do you that I don't know them? You don't. You and the others are the worst kind of ignorant as you have no desire to learn about the real world our societies poor live in and what they deal with daily. Again, I am not excusing these boys for what they did I am merely observing that you and others here have no concept if how others live. U would like to see how you would turn out in a single parent family, impoverished, neighborhood full of gangs, no future or hope instilled in you. Yes, I am sure you would have been perfect.

".....if we don't trust kids to be able to make rational choices of relatively minor subjects like that why on earth do you think they are capable of making a rational choice to kill someone?????" Grand Union

So according to you commiting murder is a rational choice? Don't be obtuse, everyone at that age knows it's wrong to kill someone and if they make a conscious choice to beet someone bad enough to kill them they should be tried as adults. End of story!

“ Oh I do so love Irony. Charging children as adults is barbaric and pure hypocrisy.” Grand Union

So let me see if I can get this straight in my head, it’s society’s duty to let murderers walk but yet you think we need to confiscate firearms from law abiding citizens. What’s wrong with this picture?

"Funny, I remember that, when I was 15, I knew that murder was wrong. When I was 13 I knew that murder was wrong. When I was 5 I knew that murder is wrong. The notion that someone cannot develop enough to know that such things are wrong until age 21 is absurd."

LOL and so why can't you vote until you are 18? why can't you decide who you want to have sex with until you are 18.....if we don't trust kids to be able to make rational choices of relatively minor subjects like that why on earth do you think they are capable of making a rational choice to kill someone?????

"You don't care about the victim OR the offenders, you only see an opportunity to insult others and feign enlightenment. What you are expressing is an opinion and quite an unoriginal one at that."

Oh I do so love Irony. Charging children as adults is barbaric and pure hypocrisy. Justice is not about the victim. Justice is to protect society, but society cannot decide on one hand its convenient to treat children as children purely based on their age for Driving, voting, sex etc and then turn around and then treat the same people as adults because it fits in with a primitive old testament wish for revenge.

Justice

The suspect's defense attorney, George Kelly, however, said his client did not intend to kill Brown.

Always after the facy huh?Was the lawyer there?,did the lawyerr know how they were thinking and planning?,was the lawyer part of it?,try the lawyer as well... They intended to do harm.They found the guy and talked about doing him harm whether for a slit second ot 5 days.They still planned to do him harm. The only crime they should be tried for is stupididty,why do criminals think that robbing the ghetto and homeless people and killing them will bring them millions and make them heros.... "What did you do?" "I killed a homeless man". Homeless shelters are mainly halfway houses for people on probation who just got out or for battered women...Have fun boys

"The repeated ignorance in this board is astounding. These are children who did a terrible wrong but they are children."

You don't care about the victim OR the offenders, you only see an opportunity to insult others and feign enlightenment. What you are expressing is an opinion and quite an unoriginal one at that.

I understand the reaction people are giving at the fact that these are childern but, at ages 13 & 15 they do know the diference from right and wrong. As a matter of fact, it is in the article that not only is this not the 1st time they have done something like this, the have done it repeatedly and even named it.......Like a sport or hobby. Even with 1st Degree Murder charged they will not get the death penalty, just life, that is actually a state law. They can be tried as adults but not put to death. As sad as I feel that this is what the next generation is coming to I feel sorry for the man killed who was in a bad spot in his life but trying to get back on his feet. I hope justice does give them a severe punishment because unfortunate as it may seem, some people (these children), aren't worth giving a 2nd chance to.

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