The family of a promising teen track star who was murdered in cold blood last week will not receive true justice even if their son’s killer is convicted of murder.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, 16-year-old track and football star Austin Metcalf was brutally stabbed to death on April 2 during a championship track meet at Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco, Texas.
Metcalf, a junior at Frisco Memorial High School, was attacked in broad daylight by 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony of rival school Frisco Centennial around 10 a.m. after the youth became upset about being told he was in the wrong place. Anthony has since been charged with first-degree murder.
Last Friday, CBS released more details about the attack. For some reason, Anthony decided to sit under Metcalf’s school tent before being asked to leave. Assuming this is true, can anyone blame Metcalf for confronting Anthony?
The outlet also revealed that the police noted Anthony’s chilling final words to Metcalf before he fatally stabbed the Frisco Memorial High School junior: “Touch me and see what happens.” Essentially, a death threat.
A couple of witnesses alleged this is precisely what Metcalf did, which supposedly provoked Anthony into killing him. No one knew Anthony had any weapon on him.
But despite this brutal crime, Collin County District Attorney Greg Willis told WFAA that they will have no choice but to give Anthony leniency if he is convicted. And you can thank the U.S. Supreme Court for this travesty.
“The Supreme Court has said not only can you not seek the death penalty against someone who committed a crime when they’re 17, you can’t even get them life without parole. That would not be something we could do even if we wanted to,” Willis said.
As CNN notes, The Supreme Court in 2005 banned the death penalty for those under 18 who commit aggravated murder. The justices then ruled five years later that juveniles found guilty of non-homicides could not receive life without parole.
In 2012, the Court issued a 5-4 ruling Supreme Court that two men convicted of killings committed when they were 14 could not be sentenced to life in prison without at least the possibility of parole. Justice Elena Kagan wrote that states that sentencing them to life behind bars would be “cruel and unusual punishment.”
“The mandatory sentencing schemes before us violate this principle of proportionality, and so violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment,” Kagan said.
Given the nationwide publicity it has received, Willis also addressed whether Anthony’s case could be tried outside Collin County.
“We know his lawyers would be asking for that, but we need to just let all that play out in the courtroom,” Willis said to WFAA. “Ultimately, that’ll be a judge’s decision to make at the time of trial, but, yes, this happened in Collin County.”
“I want Collin County citizens to be able to decide this,” he added.
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