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Why are some of you analyzing this situation like you were never 15 and knew it was wrong to stab someone?
My question is what is this picture of? The girl that was killed? >

Yes, Kayla Green is the victim. The article doesn’t identify the suspect. >

I see. This is a crappy situation no doubt. Poor kids and damn kids. >

Interesting stuff, in other parts of the country this would get them charged as an adult. At 15 you should know it's not okay to stab someone and death is real. >

at 15 you are still very much developing impulse control
so "knowing" something is wrong isn't why we treat children differently
we treat them differently because their brains are PHYSICALLY different >

So all 15yrs olds can run around stabbing but we’ll get em when they’re older because imPUlsE ConTRol??
Yall knew damn well at 15 not to stab someone. >

She's going to be incarcerated for 9 years. That's not "get em when they're older" that's get em now. These kinds of offenders are the least likely to recommit especially when she's not released until age 24. You're acting like spending the rest of high school and college years in prison is a slap on the wrist. It's absolutely not. >

And in line and possibly even excessive incarceration compared to other developed nations. Our incarceration system is completely out of control and out of touch with addressing the root. It’s a degenerative punishment system. >


possibly even excessive incarceration

Say that to the victims parents....
You don't go from being a perfect innocent well behaved child to stabbing someone to death. 
This girl was a fuck up long before this incident. >

Happy to tell anyone factual information. It is a fact that other countries follow data for their incarceration terms. I didn’t say she was a perfect innocent child. I’d guess she was about opposite, and a product of a bad home and hole life. Punishing a child severely because of the way they were raised and their circumstance is anecdotal. The science behind it says address the poverty, but we just punish poor people in this country. Look at our recidivism rates in this country versus other developed nations. It’s not even close. They follow science, we just punish with cruelly long sentences with no support system. It’s pathetic and disgusting. I’m not discounting this particular crime, because that’s what your tone seems to imply. It’s terrible and she should be held accountable. Go back and re-read my comment. I simply stated the fact that the child’s sentence is in line or possibly excessive compared to other developed nations. Why does hearing a fact trigger you to attack the bearer of said fact? Your position could be to disagree with the laws in other countries, but then you’d be wrong again, because they follow data science, not some archaic sentencing guidelines that are ineffective, well, except for lining the pockets of prison moguls. Our system works pretty well for that.