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mk  ·  4775 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: My child, the murderer
It varies state by state.

It happened near me in Michigan in a pretty famous case. An 13 year old was charged with 2nd degree murder that he committed when he was 11: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/jan2000/abra-j14.shtml

It's getting better slowly, but it was brought on by a bunch of idiots thinking they were 'getting tough on crime' that started in the 80's. A lot of states started passing mandatory sentencing, and started dropping age limits for sentencing:

http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Editorial-Board-Blog/201...

Pretty shameful stuff.