. . it should be to just look at the fact that they engaged in the same behavior, then treat them both the same as adults,” says Judge Ladoris Cordell (PBS). Many citizens believe that children should be tried as adults. In one court case in 1997, an 11-year-old shot and killed an 18-year-old. Prosecutor Sean Colston felt that children should know right from wrong and should be punished for their actions; children should go to prison and learn from their mistakes. He also thought that maybe prison would teach them to never break the law again (Should children be tried as adults?). Every day teenagers are tried, receive reduced sentences and are released, causing forever suffering to the families of their victims and the victim themselves. Both the courts and children's rights believe that young people who commit crimes should be given second chances; however, criminals walk the streets everywhere, old or young (Teen