uveniles should be sentenced to life without parole when committing 1st degree murder no matter the circumstance. Kids nowadays seem to take a more violent approach when dealing with certain situations. Such as, Nathaniel Brazil who shot an English teacher to death for simply not letting him say bye to his classmates. Researchers have in fact proven that teens have “...a massive loss of brain tissue that occurs within the teenage years.” as written by Paul Thompson in “Startling Finds on Teenage Brains”. Therefore, with this new information been more inclined to using these studies to defend their case but it is not an excuse for the children's violent behavior. Life is everyone's most valuable possession that no other human being has a right