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...minds of murderers and children share one key characteristic: They will always be a mystery to the rest of us. This truth was never more evident than on Thursday, when 13-year-old Nathaniel Abraham, who was found guilty of fatally shooting 18-year-old Ronnie Green in 1997, was sentenced to spend the next seven years in Michigan's juvenile detention system, against the prosecution's pleas for a harsher sentence. Impassively observing the proceedings, Abraham stared balefully into the distance as his fate was decided; his lawyer reports the boy asked him "What happened?" after court was adjourned...
...Faced with an increasingly conservative trend in state legislatures, many of which want a straitjacket approach to juvenile justice, Judge Moore was trying to find a reasonable answer to a very complicated question," says TIME senior reporter Alain Sanders. Abraham's case attracted international attention after Amnesty International showcased the boy, who could have faced a life sentence, in an exposé on the cruelties of the American criminal justice system. "People are torn on the topic of juvenile crime and punishment," says Sanders. "On the one hand, murder is murder, and you can't just let kids run around...
Einstein's friend and fellow physicist Abraham Pais called him "the freest man I have known," by which he meant that by the pure act of thinking, Einstein controlled his destiny. His mind was utterly fearless, and by its uses he diminished fear in others. "It stands to the everlasting credit of science," Einstein wrote, "that by acting on the human mind, it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature." And so he became a model of what humans might do if they put their mind...
Carruth was not one of the three men--Stanley Abraham, Michael Kennedy and William Watkins--believed to be in the car from which shots were fired. But Kennedy's attorney, James Exum, tells TIME that throughout the attack, Carruth was driving his white Ford Expedition directly in front of Adams' car while talking by cell phone to Watkins, whom Kennedy has named as the gunman. And a homeowner in the neighborhood where the wounded woman stopped her car says he overheard Adams telling the police that her "boyfriend" had shot her. "Her composure and ability to talk with us were...
Evidence links Carruth to the other suspects. Abraham's attorney, James Gronquist, says Carruth and Kennedy struck up an acquaintance at a tire shop after noticing they had the same rims on their tires. And according to Kennedy's attorney, Carruth was hanging out with both suspects on the evening...