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"Second chance for killer kids?"

By Douglas A. Berman

The question in the title of this post is the headline of this lengthy article in today's Detroit Free Press.  Here is how the piece gets started: Dontez Tillman and Thomas McCloud were 14-year-old middle schoolers in Pontiac in the summer of 2008. Neither was old enough to drive, drink, nor apply for a video store membership. Today, Tillman and McCloud are serving mandatory life in a Lapeer prison, convicted as adults of first-degree murder in November for the beating deaths of two homeless men over three days with older teens. ?I screwed up my life,? McCloud told the Free Press in a prison interview. ?I wish I could take it all back, that I never left the house that day.? Their case brings into focus Michigan?s position in a national debate over how to handle young killers...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 28, 2010 (boomark / email).