Section 1: Trina, fourteen-year-old African American forced to be tried as an adult for 2^nd degree murder regardless of her mental incompetency; life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

Section 2: Ian, a thirteen-year-old Hispanic charged with armed robbery and attempted homicide; spent eighteen years in solitary confinement; life imprisonment without parole.

Section 3: Antonio, a fourteen-year-old Latino condemned to die in prison for aggravated kidnapping and attempted murder [due to a joint trial with a twenty-seven-year-old co-defendant] became the youngest person in the United States in which no one was physically injured.

Section 4: George, a fourteen-year-old African American convicted of rape and murder by an all-white jury that deliberated for ten minutes before sentencing him to be executed within three months after trial ended

He suggests that most people in the United States have not experienced poverty first-hand, but those that have are vulnerable to adult prosecution and punishment .

He explains that the “black and brown” adults and children living in poverty does not mean that crime is their ultimate goal.

He implies that poverty is more widespread in particular states, and by visiting those states he can envision more productive ways to help combating it.

He indicates that it is to draw attention to the plight of the impoverished children in the United States who had been sentenced to die in prison.

“Black and brown” children have sentencing in the south based on the result of Racial Politics.

“Black and brown” children are equally treated.

“Black and brown” children are punished in the juvenile judicial system based on the norms trickled from society.in relation to poverty

“Black and brown” children are sentenced to executions far more than others seeming to be inviting and exhilarating.

It compares children to adults suggesting both should be tried and sentenced equally.

It identifies specific problems in the juvenile judicial system and solutions Stevenson believes must be addressed.

It gives in chronological order immediate action-steps necessary to ensure success in the juvenile judicial system.

It tries to convince and persuade the reader that Stevenson's thoughts of reforming the juvenile justice system can be easily implemented.

If a child were thirteen or fourteen when the crime was committed the adult system would intervene on unusually high-profile cases if committed by a black child against a white person.

The appointed lawyer discouraged Ian to plead guilty, assuring him that he would be sentenced to fifteen years in prison, not realizing that two of the charges against him were punishable with sentences of life imprisonment without parole.

It is a Society where no child will experience domestic violence, and no child will go unprotected.

He [the Judge] could consider Trina’s age, mental illness, poverty, the abuse she had suffered, or the tragic circumstances surrounding the fire.

Defendants who are deemed incompetent and have experience horrific trauma should not be tried in awkward criminal proceedings.

Age mental, illness, poverty, and abuse have everything to do with sentencing an individual to the death penalty or a life of imprisonment without parole.

Children facing prosecution and sentencing are entitled to treatment and services when deemed incompetent.

Ending poverty and improving the juvenile judicial system proves that “no person is seen as at a disadvantage will ever serve time in jail.

A. poverty

A. mental and intellectual improvements

A. trauma

A. homelessness

A. wealth

The fact that the judge could take the absence of intent into consideration during sentencing.

The fact that the judge could take age, mental illness, poverty, the abuse suffered or tragic circumstances.

That fact that the judge in Pennsylvania could not be inflexible sentencing laws inflexible.

That fact that the judge could take into consideration when a juvenile is being prosecute and imprisoned for life without probation or the death penalty.

In order to demand equal rights for juveniles within society, people should take a stand for all regardless to treatment.

In order to defend the rights of juveniles, society must go to battle for their rights.

The rights of juveniles are always protected by society.

In an equal society, “black and brown” children should be provided all of the same rights as children of non-color.

to imply that “black and brown” children should have the right to fair prosecution and sentencing over other children of non-color and adults because they are not yet aware of societal norms.

to infer that the rights of “black and brown” children in the judicial system are often neglected regardless of any extraordinary circumstances.

to support his statement that the rights of ”black and brown” children in the judicial system are bias based on Racial Politics.

to reinforce the idea that “black and brown” children have always been treated fairly.

to describe the conflict between repressed tears and the immorality juveniles faced while imprisoned.

to put forth the idea that juvenile rights are naturally and systematically given to all.

to argue the ways that juveniles may protect their feelings from the confinements of the judicial system.

to establish a space for the first-person voices and experiences of imprisoned juveniles.

To explain the how principles become softened by reality and improves injustice.

To show cultural bias against, poor, mentally ill, and disregarded undeniable.

To use fear as a tool to enforce or enact the law.

To demonstrate the pursuit of justice and protection of the innocent.

“This is the saddest case I’ve ever seen,” he wrote. For a tragic crime committed at fourteen, Trina was condemned to die in prison.”

“The Stinney execution was horrific and heartbreaking, but it reflected the racial politics of the South more than the way children accused of crimes were generally treated. It was an example of how policies and norms once directed exclusively at controlling and punishing the black population have filtered their way into our general criminal justice system.”

“Ian spent eighteen uninterrupted years in solitary confinement.”

“The judge sent him to California’s dangerous, overcrowded adult prisons. At fourteen, Antonio became the youngest person in the United States condemned to die in prison for a crime in which no one was physically injured.”

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juveniles are born to be radically impulsive and brutally remorseless.

juveniles are innately evil, and the justice system protects the black and brown children.

juveniles labeled as “super-predators” proved wildly inaccurate because the juvenile population increased but the juvenile crime rate declined.

America would soon be overcome by “elementary school youngsters who pack guns instead of lunches” and who “have absolutely no respect for human life.

juveniles who commit serious crimes long have been vulnerable to adult prosecution and punishment in many states.

Judge Reed expressed confidence about the sentence he was forced to impose.

Judge Reed expressed uncertainty about the sentence he was forced to impose.

Judge Reed expressed hate about the sentence he was forced to impose.

Judge Reed expressed happiness about the sentence he was forced to impose.

Judge Reed expressed sadness about the sentence he was forced to impose.