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[quote=Anonymous][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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I think 65 years is probably too much but I don’t have an issue with the conviction. This kid knowingly went on an armed burglary spree with his friends. If you are rolling with people who are armed and you’re engaging in crimes that are being committed with that gun, you do have culpability when during that crime spree that you are willingly participating in someone gets shot. What is it that the kids say these days…f*ck around and find out. [/quote]

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