Like most people here, I'm short on sympathy for this person.

So he's a kid - big deal - so what!

You do the crime you do the time. If you start making excuses for one person because there were 'reasons' for his sociopathic behaviour, then you can find such reasons for every criminal's behaviour - after all, even the adult murderers and rapists were kids once, right?

If the judge has the power to put him away for 60 years for it, and you don't think that's reasonable - your beef should be with the system that gives the judge that power in my opinion.