BrasíliaSenate weighs trying 16-year-olds as adults on Wednesday.

Polls show voters in Brazil approve of lowering the age of criminal responsibility.

The proposal sets liability at 16 for heinous crimes only and keeps 18 for all others.

Opposition senator Rogério Marinho’s rival text would lower the age to 16 for all crimes and 14 for heinous ones.

Likely rapporteur Rogério Carvalho of Lula’s Workers’ Party says inaction invites a cut to 14.

How each outlet framed it
Agência Pública
details the PT-backed compromise that holds age 16 only for heinous crimes and quotes Rogério Carvalho warning of a slide to 14

Sources: Agência Pública