siempre ha sido un cobarde y siempre lo será, dijo kathy russell, la tía de michael russell. emoción violenta, ya que declararon que le quitaron la vida. russell para experimentar cómo se sentía matar a alguien sin embargo, en 2018, los legisladores estatales aprobaron una ley que prohíbe enjuiciar como adultos a cualquier persona menor de 16 años. por

siempre ha sido un cobarde y siempre lo será, dijo kathy russell, la tía de michael russell. l fue la adolescente a quien jay williams y otro joven llamado randy thompson apuñalaron hasta la muerte en 2009. en ese momento, thompson tenía 16 años y williams 15. ambos fueron juzgados como adultos y condenados. el asesinato fue catalogado como un acto de emoción violenta, ya que declararon que le quitaron la vida. russell para experimentar cómo se sentía matar a alguien sin embargo, en 2018, los legisladores estatales aprobaron una ley que prohíbe enjuiciar como adultos a cualquier persona menor de 16 años. por lo tanto, williams volvió a la corte juvenil para revisar su caso. finalmente, el lunes, un juez lo liberó 9 años después de su condena inicial de 26 años. >> essentially tied the hands of steven clark, analista legal, dice que la legislatura estatal ató las manos de los fiscales y dijo que ya no se pueden acusar como adultos a los de 14 o 15 años. >> independiente mente de la gravedad de los crímenes. tras intentar evitarnos fuera de la cárcel, louis romero, el abogado de

. >> reporter: cathy russell is michael russell's aunt. as a teen, he was stabbed to death in 2009. thompson was 16 at the time and williams was 15. both were tried as adults and convicted. the murder was dubbed a thrill killing because they said they took michael's life because they wanted to see what it felt like to kill someone. in 2018, state lawmakers pass add law prohibiting anyone under 16 from being tried as adults. so williams went back to court to retry a case. a judge set him free nine years into his 26-year sentence. >> the state legislature tied the hands of prosecutors and said you can no longer charge a 14 or 15-year-old as an adult regardless of the nature of the crime. >> reporter: after trying to avoid us outside the jail, williams' lawyer, who sparred with prosecutors and the judge, finally turned around and said this. >> finally the courts have done what is just. we should stop caging children and punishing them not only in california, the united states, across the world. we are more interesting in cage free chickens, cage free animals. we should be more focused

killing by prosecutors, because williams and a second boy said they stabbed another teenager, michael russell, just to see what it felt like to kill someone. both thompson and williams were tried as adults and convicted. in 2018 the state legislature passed a law prohibiting anyone under 16 from being tried as an adult. williams challenged his sentence and a judge set him free. nine years into his 26-year sentence. the victim's family says they're devastated. >> he would have been a great contributor to society and, unfortunately, he's not the one that gets to live here in it because jay killed him and he gets to live here now. he gets to be out and be a member of our community and it's so not deserving. >> the other killer, randy thompson, is only a few months older but for the moment remains in prison facing a decades long sentence. >>> a live look at sfo. thanksgiving is two days away. here is how it looks inside the airport. the tsa is expecting to screen 2.5 million passengers nationwide. the sunday after, a record 3 million are expected to travel by air. >>> a live look at traffic cams,

in 2009, 15-year-old jae williams and 16-year-old randy thompson stabbed michael russell to death. prosecutors labeled it as a thrill killing because the two boys wanted to see what it felt like to kill someone. both were tried as adults and convicted. in 2018, state lawmakers passed a law prohibiting anyone under 16 from being tried as an adult. so williams went back to juvenile court to revisit his case. yesterday a judge set him free nine years into his 26-year sentence. >> he would have been a great contributor to society, and unfortunately he's not the one that gets to live here because jae killed him, and he gets to live here now. he gets to be out and be a member of our community, and it's so not deserving. >> joining us now is nbc's damian trujillo, who broke the story for us. damian, this is fascinating here. just to be clear, the boy was 15 at the time of the murder, and this new law kicks in a few years ago. and then the judge essentially has to let this kid, who is now a man, out of jail. >> reporter: he has no choice. the state legislature passed this law back in 2018,

. >> reporter: cathy russell is michael russell's aunt. as a teen, he was stabbed to death in 2009.was 16 at the time and williams was 15. both were tried as adults and convicted. the murder was dubbed a thrill killing because they said they took michael's life because they wanted to see what it felt like to kill someone. in 2018, state lawmakers pass add law prohibiting anyone under 16 from being tried as adults. so williams went back to court

killing by prosecutors because williams and a second boy said they stabbed another teenager, michael russell to see what it felt like to kill someone. both thompson and jae williams were tried as adults and convicted. in 2018, though, the state legislature passed a law prohibiting anyone under 16 from being tried as an adult. williams challenged his sentence. and yesterday a judge set him free. the victim's family, though, is devastated. >> he would have been a great contributor to society. and unfortunately, he's not the one that gets to live here in it because jae killed him. and he gets to live here now. he gets to be out and be a member of our community. and it's so not deserving. >> the other killer, randy thompson, is only a few months older than williams but for the moment remains in prison facing a decades-long sentence. >>> new at 11:00, a mcdonald's employee has been arrested after police say he tried to run over a customer. this happened in hercules yesterday. the 21-year-old worker allegedly got into an argument with a 17-year-old, and that is when the employee got into his car a

russell coleman, former -- he's winning by a healthy marriage in here as well in this race, but yes, michaelretary of state, doing even better than coleman, and certainly better than cameron, who is struggling right now in his race against bashir. as you mentioned, there was that primary that michael adams survived earlier this year. he had two opponents, kind of from the right. airing all sorts of grievances and claims about the 2020 election that abby adams was pretty forthright and announcing. and i think he could make a strong case here, looking at this, that that kind of posture made him potentially vulnerable in republican primary. it didn't turn out to be that vulnerable. it made him more palatable to middle of the road people in kentucky. >> for people in this era that have taken a stand, have beaten back the primary challenge, often we've seen their general election performance essentially kind of improve because of it. and adams is an interesting case here as well. steve kornacki, we'll see you in a little bit. don't go anywhere. thank. you we come back, the latest plan to get host

michael adams, will be reelected defeating a democrat. buddy wheatley. and cnn is projecting that in the attorney generalal race, russellblican, will defeat democrat pamela stevenson. that is an open seat, the attorney general, because the incumbent attorney general is running for governor. let us all check also check out, of course, what is going on in the key race alert we have here for t the governonor's race i ie state of kentucky, the commonwealth of kentucky. democratic incumbent governor andy beshear, with 50% of the vote in remains ahead, 39,520 votes ahead, with 52.7% of the vote against the republican attorney general, daniel cameron, who has 47.3% of the vote. that is 50% of the vote in. let us look at ohio right now, where there is a referendum on whether or not there should be a constitutional right to an abortion in the state constitution. with 13% of the vote in yes is ahead by more than 175,000 votes, 67.7% for yes no. has 32.3% of the vote. so far. yes. is in the lead. yes. would of course, enshrined abortion rights with within in the ohio constitution. but again, there is still 87% of the vote left to