Justice Falls Short as Colombian Teen Assassin of Senator Uribe Turbay Receives Mere Seven-Year Sentence

The brutal assassination of Colombian senator and presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay has culminated in a controversial and troubling judicial outcome that should raise alarms across the Americas. The teenage gunman, just 15 years old, who carried out the attack was sentenced this week to only seven years in a specialized juvenile detention center under Colombia’s System of Criminal Responsibility for Adolescents. How Can Justice Serve When Life Is Taken So Lightly? This sentence—one of the harshest available under Colombia’s juvenile justice framework—hardly reconciles with the gravity of the crime. The young assassin shot Senator Uribe Turbay at close range...