Life Without Parole

This essay will consist of many of my ideas and opinions on sentencing teens to life without parole. I agree that teenagers deserve life without parole for heinous crimes like first and second degree murder depending on whether or not the teenage offender planned out their crimes or the crime was committed in the heat of the moment out of anger or sadness. The teens that are in these programs and have lesser sentences should also only have 2 more chances to mess up and commit more crimes before they are sentenced to life without parole. I also believe that all the teens that planned out their crimes should be where they are in prison. There is another reason why teens commit crimes, It is the undeveloped of their frontal lobes of their brains
I believe this because when circumstances like what happened in the previous paragraph happen it’s a matter of a child having a messed up outlook on life because of how he was raised and treated growing up so this is not the child's fault it’s the parents and they got what they deserve for abusing him so cruelly. This was self defence in every way. In this article Mr. Barnes tells us that “The Supreme Court ruled Monday that those sentenced as teenagers to mandatory life imprisonment for murder must have a chance to argue that they should be released from prison”. I agree with this statement because if the teen was wrongfully accused for a crime or it was an act of self defence then the teens don’t deserve to be sentenced so
There are many different programs that help out troubled teens to cope with the actions they took. These programs would only be for the ones that deserve it like Nathaniel Brazil he was sentenced to life. He is actually trying to become a better person unlike Lionel Tate who committed many more crimes after he went on parole. I got the information about Nathaniel Brazil and Lionel Tate from these two articles “Startling Finds on Teenage Brains” by Paul Thompson and “Kids Are Kids-Until They Commit Crimes” by Marjie Lundstrom. In the article “Kids Are Kids-Until They Commit Crimes” Lionel Tate was sentenced to life in prison that people believed he didn’t deserve it because he accidentally killed the little girl while playing, at the time I would have thought the same thing but after researching more on his trial I found out some pretty startling information. I think this information that Ms. Lundstrom provided is accurate because she quoted info from a news story in the “Sacramento Bee”. She says “Last month in Sacramento, a fifteen year-old Yuba City youth who reportedly claimed he was mimicking a TV program about little girls who rob a bank was given 26-years-to-life prison term. Tried as an adult, Thomas A. Preciado was fourteen when he stabbed to death a mini mart clerk”. I later found out that after Lionel Tate was released on parole because his