Crimes are most often associated with adults. Murder is particularly associated with adults. When a teenager commits a crime such as murder, he must be judged, and he must not be treated with indulgence and coddling, but with the full force of the law as an adult. Seventeen-year-old Robert Acuna, a high school student from Texas, was being tried as an adult to determine the outcome of his sentence. He was going to find out if he would live or die. Robert Acuna murdered his two elderly neighbors named James and Joyce Caroll. Robert shot and killed them both “execution style,” then stole their car and drove away. Adam Liptak wrote “Mr. Acuna's youth should have worked in his favor. Instead, his moody and unstable teenage behavior may have harmed more than it helped, and the jury sentenced him to death. of gray matter in the brain during adolescence can impair a teen's judgment and thinking. (Thompson. 2)...