Never underestimate the stupidity of the judicial system when it comes to “teens”. It is a well known fact among judges that you aren’t as dead if you’re killed by a young person as say if you were killed by a 20 yo hence the punishment if any is significantly less for young murderers. The same is even more extreme if you’re murdered by a young black person you are even less dead than if you were killed by a white male. So the punishment if any is even less.
Case in point several decades ago in my county a 15 yo male of undisclosed race shot a little girl in the head for fun and killed her. His punishment was to write a 500 word essay saying how he was sorry and knew what he did was wrong and was sent to live in California with his father. If it had been my kid he murdered I would have tracked the little POS down if humanly possible and made sure his end was slow and hard regardless of any consequences to me.
Death by scaphism.....or fire ants.
“Case in point several decades ago in my county a 15 yo male of undisclosed race shot a little girl in the head...”
The two teenagers who shot up their middle school in Arkansas killing several students and teachers, couldn’t be charged as adults due to their ages. They were released with new identities and a clean record on their 21st birthdays. I believe Arkansas updated their juvenile laws because of this case.