Usually whenever my parents saw I had bad grades, we'd have a little argument. It never turned physical..and why should it?
Lewin C. Powell III admitted in court he killed his mother over his grades. He beat his mother to death with a baseball bat and beat his father enough to fracture his skull twice. His father survived. Powell is 16. He and his attorneys agreed to a first-degree murder guilty plea, and the prosecutors dropped the attempted murder on his father and other charges. According to his attorneys, Powell has had lifetime problems and should spend his life sentence at a maximum-security psychiatric facility. All because "he just snapped that day." He wasn't abused by his parents, apparently.
Maybe he should go to a psychiatric facility. But some prison time would do him some good. He took a human life. Over bad grades. And brutally attacked his father. Over bad grades. Is that what society is raising our youth to do?
Lewin C. Powell III admitted in court he killed his mother over his grades. He beat his mother to death with a baseball bat and beat his father enough to fracture his skull twice. His father survived. Powell is 16. He and his attorneys agreed to a first-degree murder guilty plea, and the prosecutors dropped the attempted murder on his father and other charges. According to his attorneys, Powell has had lifetime problems and should spend his life sentence at a maximum-security psychiatric facility. All because "he just snapped that day." He wasn't abused by his parents, apparently.
Maybe he should go to a psychiatric facility. But some prison time would do him some good. He took a human life. Over bad grades. And brutally attacked his father. Over bad grades. Is that what society is raising our youth to do?
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