http://www.phrusa.org/campaigns/juv_justice/release20050301.html
“It provides a legal grounding for what scientists have shown: that kids are different from adults. Brains of young people are underdeveloped, particularly in the areas that dictate reason, impulse control and decision-making. To impose expectations of adult-level capacities on the thinking and behavior of minors has always been unreasonable, especially when the most severe adult punishment is at hand.”
