This letter is in response to Tuesday’s editorial, “Cruel Courts.” The teens in South Florida who threw rubbing alcohol on a young boy should not only be tried as adults, they should be put in prison for life without parole. These teens knew exactly what would happen when they threw the match: extensive physical and psychological damage and, most likely, death.
The Editorial Board is treating the three teens as the victims, not the boy who may die from the attack. If these teens were able to think up an act so heinous, then they should be tried as adults. No “child” with a conscience would be able to carry out such an act.
The victim did not deserve to be set on fire. At what point do we, as a society, punish equally those who commit the crimes?
