Chris Pittman at the age of 12 when he murdered his grandparents for sending him to bed early after being sent home from school one day for fighting. A little background on Chris. He was raised by his father with his sister and he was almost tossed around from adult to adult so he never really liked adults from then on. He was diagnosed with depression and given an anti depression medicine to take. In November of 2001 Chris murdered his grandparents just shy of midnight and took the dog, weapons, and the family car and was spotted not too far away by police shortly thereafter. Chris is now 19 and is in adult jail and has been ever since the incident.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/14/juvenile.killer/index.html
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Chris was locked up at 12 as an adult for the double murder and was sentenced to 30 years without parole. He is in the South Carolina Prison System up near Columbia. His lawyers are begging and pleading that he be given less of a sentenced or get it reduced I should say. I say he should have gotten longer. He has the life if you ask me. He has earned his GED in 2006, good for him. He seems to possibly be trying but he is in prison and I'm not a judge. He gets free room and board at the age of 19 free food and will have a "loved one" in prison whats not to love everything is free. Then he gets out at the age of 45ish just when retirement starts to enter the picture for some. I guess this bothers me because he was 12 years old and shot his grandparents with a shotgun then tried to burn the evidence by burning the house down and he only gets 30 years. I don't care if he was a kid 12 years old is more than a ripe age to know right from wrong. You cannot blame the medicine, you could blame the FDA but thats another story in itself. The FDA now requires that medicines such as this put an extra warning saying if given to children can cause increase in suicidal thoughts. All in all being such a conservative state that SC is I think he should have received at least a life term with possibility for parole since he was not 18. I say with the possibility because he may keep up with education and do everything he is asked and then be re-evaluated by a psychologist.
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