[Stu]

Of course he knew what he was doing. Why do I get the feeling I will be explaining this ad nauseam for the rest of my life?

An eleven year old might know they are killing someone. But that's just the physical action and simplistic, child like, presumably angry mindset that led to it. A conscious, reflective understanding and contemplation of the crime though would be vastly different.

A human brain has not even begun maturing at eleven. I don't care what anybody says and I don't need to explain that. That said I will stress again that I am talking in general terms here. Maybe he is a psychopath who will never show remorse.

Then again ... maybe between now and his eighteenth birthday things could change quite drastically and we could make him understand instead of just keeping him gaga and throwing away the key. I'm personally very interested in the could and believe it is worth a shot. It's not as if he will be released anyway at eighteen or whatever age if the rehabilitation is a dismal faliure. But it's worth trying. It's this baseless, Daily Mailized eye for an eye attitude people apply to every title they read without even thinking about it that irks me senseless.

Responses by certain folk may include such phrases as 'oh please!', 'bleeding heart!' 'spare me the ____!' or in light of me getting their first 'your a smart, smug shit aren't you?'.