New Mexico governor signs bill ending juvenile life sentences without parole

Details of the crime:

I was 13, he was 15. Apparently he and a younger boy had been burglarizing random homes in the neighborhood. I didn’t know it was him breaking in to them. They stole guns. Then he decided for whatever reason that now he wanted to up the thrill and see what murder felt like. They chose a single young mom who lived out in the woods in a home set way back from the road. They know she was home, knew her husband has moved out. So the younger boy went around to the back door and asked for help using a code word as soon as he could see she was alonr. Then my brother burst in with a shotgun and a hunting rifle. They held her captive while they ransacked the house then told her to pack a bag for the baby, that they were going with them. So she put together a bag for the baby. Then my brother turned the volume of the television way up and pointed his shotgun at the younger accomplices head and ordered him to shoot the woman. The mom was begging them not to hurt the baby and finally the younger boy shot her in the head and literally blew her brains out then my brother looked at the baby in her lap and decapitated it with his shotgun. Then they left. Went home and back to school the next day. My brother did a current affairs report about the then unsolved murders in social studies and he performed in the school play, Oklahoma. The younger boy couldn’t handle what they’d done and tried to kill himself but failed. When the police questioned him about the gun he used he gave up everything. They arrested my brother in class.

He is mad that be’s still in prison and not allowed the chance to have a normal life.

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