Bryan Stevenson

And he goes over to the drawer.

He pulls it open.

He pulls out the gun.

He goes over to where the man is sleeping.

And he points the gun at the man's head.

And the man is snoring at this point.

And at some point, the man stops snoring and jumps.

And when the man jumps, the little boy jumps.

And when the little boy jumps, he pulls the trigger and shoots this man in the head, killing him instantly.

This child was very small for his age.

It was under five feet tall.

He weighed less than 100 pounds.

He'd never been in trouble before.

No prior juvenile adjudications.

He was a decent student.

He was the kind of kid...

that might have been tried as a juvenile, but for the fact that the man that he shot and killed, his mother's boyfriend, well, that man was a deputy sheriff.

And because he was a deputy sheriff, the prosecutor insisted that this child be tried as an adult, and the judge immediately placed this child in an adult facility.

I got involved three days later, and I went to the jail to see this kid, and I was struck how when he walked into the room, he seemed to be so terrified.

And he sat down and I started asking him questions, but no matter what I asked him, he wouldn't say anything.