Christopher Pittman who was 12 years old at the time went into his grandparents bedroom and shot both of them. He was given 30 years in prision for the double murder and the court denied his request for another court date. Defenders argued that the boy's punishment was too harsh for him being only 12 at the time. According to the article Supreme Court turns down boy killer's appeal, Michele Deitch quoted "have recognized a growing national trend against sentencing young children to harsh mandatory terms in prison, and wants to give state legislatures the opportunity to correct this problem before it rules on the issue." Pittman has been passed around homes for years and was abandoned him as a child. During the time of the crime, christopher was taking antidepressant pills. The boy days before the started a new antidepressant pill which might have caused the boy to have violent outbreaks. What a sad story. It is too bad that antidepressant pills may have had to do with the crime. Doctors should be a lot more concerned about what they give kids because kids bodies are different and still maturing different than adults.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/14/juvenile.killer/index.html
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