Film Analysis: When A Child Kills

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Furthermore, trialing children who have not even met their teenage years can have so much controversy due to the fact that “ they are to young”. In my perspective I believe that in every homicide, murder is never okay and should be taken seriously with serious consequences. In a documentary When a Child Kills speaks about an eleven year old boy, Nathaniel Abraham in which he was first charged with first degree murder and was finally convicted with second degree murder. I believe the jury first wanted to convict Nathaniel for first degree murder due to his race. The jury assumed that Nathaniel purposely shot seventeen year old, Ronnie Greene because of Nathaniel’s background holding twenty two pending charges against him. This brought so much

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