King's Accused Killer to Be Tried

When he becomes of age, please fry him. He is a monster.

He's a monster, but he's a kid. Maybe there's hope for rehabilitating him, but I have no idea how to go about it.

Derek, Sorry, but it is UNCONSTITUTIONAL to execute children in this country, along with the rest of the civilized work. If you don't like it, move to Saudi Arabia.

There should have never been the possibility of getting a gun into this school in the first place. Doesn't this school have metal detectors at its entrances? Like it or not, we are living in an era in which school shootings are commonplace. This will happen again, somewhere, unless we take steps to prevent it. That includes raising children who aren't killers, but it also includes metal detectors in schools. RIP, Larry King.

What a story. As I read all the comments, I find reasonable statements in each of them. I don't want a violent teenager on the street with apparently no regard for human life yet at 14, he's a boy. I agree that the parents should also be held accountable on some level. There were guns in the house which were unsecured. The right to bear arms, yeah right. What about the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness regardless of who you are? I also agree if and when this child goes to prison, he will be lost. There will be no way to salvage him but with his parents, it is probably already too late. The irony is that as a young boy in prison, he will learn more about gay sex than he ever imagined. Its a horrible waste of two young lives. It makes me glad to not have children. I don't want to worry about sending them out into a world with so much blind hatred. Tragic situation for all concerned.

I think it is time to prosecute parents, too. This child did not become like this on his own. His parents absolutely have a responsibility in this. Gay people can't even adopt in many states, but heterosexual parents get away with child abuse like this?

This kid should get the death penalty. At 14 you know shooting someone in the head will kill them. You definetly know shooting them twice will kill them. It was a cold and calculated murder. He did not beat him to death on the spot one day. He went home the day before, got his hands on a gun, broght it to school, had time to decide not to do it and still commited murder. Shot him twice in the head. He knew what he was doing and he knew what the result would be. He deserves death. There should not even be a question. An entire class saw him do it as well as the teacher. All those lives changed when that happened. He did not just kill someone, he affected many. He knew what he was doing. He wanted everyone to see. He does not deserve sympathy or empathy.

I want to see him rehabilitated. the fact is, he's NOT going to get life in prison. he'll get about 10 or 20 years, and he'll be out again, still relatively young and yet hardened, and unafraid of returning to prison. It may or may not be too late to salvage him, he's had a whole year plus of being a notorious murderer... that must have a pretty crystallizing effect, especially at his age. But dammit, we need to do something besides comfort ourselves with the fantasy that kids like this will go away, that locking people up forever and ever and losing the key is some sort of social solution. it's not.

He needs to be imprisoned and his neo-nazi beliefs need to be expunged. Given that the government cannot get into the business of altering people's beliefs I would suggest sending him to a prison here in South Carolina where his fellow inmates will see to it that he loses those opinions very quickly. Admittedly if he is a slow learner it is unlikely he will survive the process as regretable accidents can occur when prisoners play together.

His age has nothing to do with this. People give children too much credit, but they have as much capacity for evil as anyone else. Age rarely brings wisdom to people who commit violent crimes. A lot of them tend to have fairly childlike mentalities, after all. Being 14 is no excuse for such a cold, calculated, and hateful thing. At 14 the most basic concept that killing someone is wrong should have already been deeply ingrained in your head and in your heart. If he could do this at 14, just imagine what he could be capable of as an adult. Call me heartless if you must, but I want this boy put into the deepest, darkest hole they can find and never let him out. You should never get a second chance for murder.