Kat, How many seven year olds do you know that have killed people? Or how many seven year olds that don't kow the difference between what is right and what is wrong.
It has become too easy to blame society, or a dysfunctional family life, or that fact that everyone teases you. Etc, ad infinitum, ad nauseum.
Let's stop mollycoddling the bad guys, and just feeling sorry for the families of their victims. Our prisons are full of self proclaimed innocent people, people who claim it wasn't their fault. There comes a time in everyone's life you you must face the consquences of your actions. The Majority of our society says that it is alright to kill a killer. Count me as part of that majority.
Tracy has had nearly 17 years to sit in his little cell and ponder his actions, and the results that he brought upon himself.
I don't see the world becoming a better place by allowing our jails to fill up with real life sentences.
Chip2447