Life in prison for a 14 year old convicted of capital murder
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Latest revision as of 12:05, August 10, 2013
The US Supreme Court has just granted cert to two cases which raise the following question:
Whether imposing a sentence of life without possibility of parole on an offender who was fourteen at the time he committed capital murder constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment.
Details can be found at SCOTUSblog.