The household of a promising teen monitor star who was murdered in chilly blood final week is not going to obtain true justice even when their son’s killer is convicted of homicide.
As The Gateway Pundit beforehand reported, 16-year-old monitor and soccer star Austin Metcalf was brutally stabbed to dying on April 2 throughout a championship monitor meet at Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco, Texas.
Metcalf, a junior at Frisco Memorial Excessive Faculty, was attacked in broad daylight by 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony of rival college Frisco Centennial round 10 a.m. after the youth turned upset about being instructed he was within the improper place. Anthony has since been charged with first-degree homicide.
Final Friday, CBS released extra particulars in regards to the assault. For some purpose, Anthony determined to take a seat beneath Metcalf’s college tent earlier than being requested to depart. Assuming that is true, can anybody blame Metcalf for confronting Anthony?
The outlet additionally revealed that the police famous Anthony’s chilling remaining phrases to Metcalf earlier than he fatally stabbed the Frisco Memorial Excessive Faculty junior: “Contact me and see what occurs.” Primarily, a dying risk.
A few witnesses alleged that is exactly what Metcalf did, which supposedly provoked Anthony into killing him. Nobody knew Anthony had any weapon on him.
However regardless of this brutal crime, Collin County District Lawyer Greg Willis instructed WFAA that they are going to don’t have any alternative however to offer Anthony leniency if he’s convicted. And you’ll thank the U.S. Supreme Courtroom for this travesty.
“The Supreme Courtroom has mentioned not solely are you able to not search the dying penalty in opposition to somebody who dedicated against the law after they’re 17, you’ll be able to’t even get them life with out parole. That might not be one thing we might do even when we wished to,” Willis said.
As CNN notes, The Supreme Courtroom in 2005 banned the dying penalty for these beneath 18 who commit aggravated homicide. The justices then dominated 5 years later that juveniles discovered responsible of non-homicides couldn’t obtain life with out parole.
In 2012, the Courtroom issued a 5-4 ruling Supreme Courtroom that two males convicted of killings dedicated after they have been 14 couldn’t be sentenced to life in jail with out a minimum of the opportunity of parole. Justice Elena Kagan wrote that states that sentencing them to life behind bars could be “merciless and weird punishment.”
“The necessary sentencing schemes earlier than us violate this precept of proportionality, and so violate the Eighth Modification’s ban on merciless and weird punishment,” Kagan mentioned.
Given the nationwide publicity it has obtained, Willis additionally addressed whether or not Anthony’s case might be tried outdoors Collin County.
“We all know his legal professionals could be asking for that, however we have to simply let all that play out within the courtroom,” Willis said to WFAA. “In the end, that’ll be a choose’s resolution to make on the time of trial, however, sure, this occurred in Collin County.”
“I need Collin County residents to have the ability to resolve this,” he added.
