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...will never know what vision 12-year-old Lionel Tate had of himself when he battered a 6-year-old girl to death two years ago in South Florida, pummeling her so thoroughly that her liver split in half. Was he pretending to be a pro wrestler, the kind who merrily body-slam their opponents without really hurting them? Or was he acutely aware of the damage he was inflicting? Likewise, we may not get the satisfaction of knowing if, across the country in California, 15-year-old Andy Williams truly understood what it meant to shoot and to kill...
What we do know is that the courts in California and Florida do not trouble themselves much with determining the motives of those usually considered to be still incapable of adult reasoning. Like most other states, both have enacted laws over the past decade to ensure that boys like Tate and Williams get tried as adults. That's why Tate was sentenced last week to life in prison without the possibility of parole--perhaps the first time a life sentence has been imposed for a crime committed at such a young...
...something strange is happening in the aftermath of Tate's trial. The public that applauded the laws that ordained his sentence was stunned at the image of the pudgy boy crying as he was told he'd be put away for life. And people involved in the case are acting just as remorsefully: prosecutor Ken Padowitz, after doing his job so well, has vowed to ask Florida Governor Jeb Bush to commute the sentence. Bush, who has signed some of the toughest juvenile-crime legislation in the country, has promised to consider...
...definition of so-called adult crimes. They streamlined the process that held sway for much of the last century, whereby a juvenile-court judge decided each child's fate. In more than half the states, certain juvenile offenders now go to adult court without any hearings at all. Once Tate's mother rejected a plea offer and the jury reached a guilty verdict, Broward County Judge Joel Lazarus had little choice but to sentence Tate to life...
...TATE MODERN An ingenious appropriation took a former London power station and cranked up its wattage. The design team, led by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, has provided natural illumination for 20th century classics and warehouse-scale space for contemporary artists...