Crime & Punishment

                In the article “Crime & Punishment”, they talk about people committing crime while they are young and having to do life for what they have done.

They discuss how and what the judges should do about it. The Supreme Court recently struck down mandatory sentences of life without parole for juveniles. The ruling signals a shift in how the law treats young offenders.

        “One night when she was 15, Rebecca Falcon got drunk and made the worst decision of her life. On Nov. 19, 1997, upset over an ex-boyfriend, she downed a large amount of whiskey and hailed a cab with an 18-year-old friend. He had a gun, and within minutes, the cabdriver lay dying of a gunshot to the head.”

        Later on in the article they found Falcon guilty for the murder. An example from the text is “A jury found Falcon guilty of murder, though it never sorted out precisely what happened.”

        In June, the Supreme Court ruled that mandatory sentences of life without parole for juvenile offenders are unconstitutional. The Supreme Court ruling is the strongest indication yet of a shift in how the American judicial system views violent juvenile offenders----who, until recently, were likely to be tried and punished as adults.

        In the article, they said how Rebecca was doing over time. She is 30 now and she had been imprisoned for the past 13 years.

        I feel as though her doing time is good because she needs to realize what she did was wrong and it should never happen again.

        This article reminds me of something I heard on the news accept the murderer was a man and he was 35 drunk as well.

        The article makes me think more deeply about things. This makes me not want to drink when I get older because I never know what can happen. Anything is bound to happen.

        I want to know what she thinks now and was the situation with her ex-boyfriend that serious?