text: Well put. The differences in a developing brain may help us understand that juveniles are at times more likely to make stupid choices, including the horrible choice to harm another, but those differences don't erase that it is still a choice that they made. They weren't compelled, nor under some "irresistible impulse." 
  
  Millions of teenagers in essentially identical personal circumstances don't make such choices, the ones who do need to be held accountable.