Jamarlon Edwards is too young to buy beer, but he’s charged with murder, capital murder, theft and robbery in a string of carjackings in the Birmingham area.

Aaron Thomas, 17, is charged with capital murder. So are 18-year-old James Reynolds and 19-year-old Dominic Keeth.  Ditto 16-year-old Anthony Murray, 18-year-old Harold Mason, 18-year-old Rufus Clyde Jr. and 18-year-old Cameron Green.

It’s been that kind of year. An epidemic of children turned killers. MORE