Brown was just 11, a chubby schoolboy, when he allegedly shot Kenzie Houk, then eight months pregnant, in the back of the head in February 2009 in her rural home northwest of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Prosecutors allege that the boy waited until his father left for work that Friday morning before entering Houk's bedroom and shooting her with a 20-gage shotgun.
After that, prosecutors say, he went to school, dropping the spent cartridge outside and leaving Houk's daughter, aged four, to discover the grisly scene.
Last year, a local judge ruled that Brown should stand trial as an adult for what is being considered the double murder of Houk and her near full-term baby son.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110125/ts_alt_afp/uscrimejusticechildren_20110125230030
If he stands trial as a juvenile, he will be free at age 21. Amnesty International and other human rights organizations are deeply troubled if he stands trial as an adult, he will never be a free man. Thus, the cruel & unusual punishment argument for a crime when committed as a child. This is assuming he did not comprehend what he was doing at the time.
My take is, he stands trial as an adult, he serves time in juvenile hall until age 21, then life in prison with eligibility for parole after 25 years.
Of course, my take is not justice. He took the life of his stepmother by blowing her brains out of her face with a 20 gauge shotgun shell to the back of the head. Furthermore and even more disgusting, his murder of her meant the death of her unborn child. Many would say he killed an adult and child. Thus forth, for the heinous crime he committed he should be sentenced to death.
Whatever the outcome, I get a creepy feeling just looking at the picture of the kid. My instincts tell me right away this kid is downright evil and will never be a productive member of US society.
