""Juveniles should be tried as juveniles and adults should be tried as adults. It seems to me people ought to be able to understand how this works.""

They are Carol, and Jamie's killers were tried as juveniles, convicted as juveniles, and incarcerated in a facility for young offenders, separate from the adult prison system.

What is being proposed here, is that they should not have been tried at all, because they were too young to know that torture and murder are wrong.

Even a puppy can be taught, at a very early age that it is wrong to crap on the carpet, so you'll excuse me if I find that argument ridiculous in the extreme.

Don T.