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Derrion Albert was16 year old honor student at Fenger High School. After school one day while walking to the bus stop he ran into two rival gangs fighting after school. The gang fight was the aftermath of a shooting that had happened earlier that week involving rival gang members at Fenger High School. The chaos started with about 10 teens and the quickly escalated to about 50 teens altogether. Some members of the fight even used wooden 2-by-4's to attack each other with. The entire scene was caught on someones cellphone camera. Derrion was knocked uncounscious when he was struck in the head with a 2-by-4. After gaining consciouness and trying to flee the scene another person punched him in the face and then kicked and punched in the face by more than five people.

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Using the cellphone photoage prosecutors charged Silvanus Shannon, 19, Eric Carson, 16, and Eugene Bailey, 18, with first-degree murder. The suspects are also being held without bond. Eugene Riley was aquitted of the charges after further investigation found that he was not involved in the crime. Silvanus Shannon admitted to hitting Albert. All of the suspects will be tried as adults including 16 year old, Eric Carson. Although the teens haven't recieved their sentence yet I feel as though the suspects should not recieve the death penalty. I think that it would be just to give each of them life in prison with a chance of parole. I don't think that we should allow the death penalty because it is like choosing who gets to live and who gets to die, and that I would think that is too big a decision for anyone. If these would have been adults I think that they would recieve harsher punishment.

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