&gt;You&#x27;re proposing hanging 14 and 15-year-olds?<p>I&#x27;m proposing trying them like adults with adult sentences, instead of the juvie system. Here in the states we already do this for many crimes. India is just catching up to what most countries do.<p>&gt;But once they&#x27;ve crossed a line, despite having another 40-50 years of life in front of them, that&#x27;s it?<p>Average murder sentence in the USA is around 20 years, that&#x27;s 10 years with good behavior. Yes, I think they&#x27;re better locked up than in the streets hurting innocents. If you&#x27;re murdering people as a teen, you aren&#x27;t fit for society. Period.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bjs.gov&#x2F;content&#x2F;pub&#x2F;ascii&#x2F;Fssc00.txt" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bjs.gov&#x2F;content&#x2F;pub&#x2F;ascii&#x2F;Fssc00.txt</a><p>You&#x27;d change your tune if it was your kid they shot, but you have the white suburban privilege of not living in the Chicago ghettos.  That doesn&#x27;t mean your pet liberal politics is correct. It just means you bought yourself out of the high crime areas (yay! money!) so you have this overly generous attitude because you&#x27;re so incredibly disconnected from the reality on the streets.