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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the lawmaker didn’t go far enough. The felony murder is a terrible concept for any age. It’s devastated lives.[/quote]

The life or the deceased victim, their friends and loved ones were pretty "devastated" too, no?[/quote]

But not by the person who didn't kill them.[/quote

Exactly. The attitudes of people here are shocking.

Read this — it’s a horrible horrible practice and exists in different guises in several states. As a nation how can we move forward when we are have state-sanctioned murder and horrendous sentencing. All of these have been abolished in the civilized world

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43673331

Lakeith Smith was 15 years old when he went along with four older friends on a burglary spree. A neighbour called police when the group went into a home in Millbrook, Alabama, and the responding officers surprised the teenagers as they were coming through the front door.
The group turned and fled out the back door, and a shootout ensued. When it was all over, 16-year-old A'Donte Washington was dead with a bullet wound to his neck.
It's never been in dispute that a Millbrook police officer shot and killed Washington - officer-worn body cameras captured the fatal confrontation. A grand jury declined to charge the officer, finding that the shooting was justified.
Instead, Smith was charged and found guilty of his friend's murder. Last week, a judge sentenced him to 65 years in prison. Under Alabama's accomplice liability law, Smith is considered just as culpable in Washington's death as if he had pulled the trigger himself.

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