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themoderatevoice.com - 13 days ago

Should Kids Get Life Without Parole?

— themoderatevoice.com — My answer is NO! Under no circumstances. The Supreme Court will hear appeals from two juvenile offenders on Monday arguing the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment forbids life in prison for crimes other than homicide. (The court ruled in the 2005 Roper v. Simmons decision ... (more) Should Kids Get Life Without Parole?

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npr.org - 12 days ago

High Court Weighs Life Terms For Minors

— npr.org — Is it unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment to send a juvenile away to prison for life, without the possibility of parole for a crime that does not involve a death? That's the question the Supreme Court ponders Monday. In 2005, the high ... (more) High Court Weighs Life Terms For Minors

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upi.com - 13 days ago

U.S. Supreme Court: Life without parole for a 13

— upi.com — WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Every once in a while society pauses to take stock, usually through the courts, to see if its actions measure up to "evolving standards of decency." The U.S. Supreme Court takes up the gauntlet Monday when it hears two ... (more) U.S. Supreme Court: Life without parole for a 13

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Slate Magazine:  Death is different, but is it all that different from life without parole?

Lawyers, Guns and Money:  Juvenile Sentencing and the Eight Amendment

The American Prospect Articles:  Under Eighteen to Life

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Goes 2 SCOTUS next week RT@NanAron:RT@ACSLaw Dahlia Lithwick on #SCOTUS case re juveniles sentenced 2 life-w/o-parole http://bit.ly/4lyqkv 12 days ago

Great article on juvenile life w/o parole in Slate: http://bit.ly/4lyqkv Remember! SCOTUS hears arguments Mon, Nov 9 http://bit.ly/uIxi7 15 days ago

RT @ACSLaw Dahlia Lithwick on #SCOTUS case re juveniles sentenced to life-w/o-parole: http://bit.ly/4lyqkv 15 days ago

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Death is different, but is it all that different from life without parole?
Slate Magazine — ... Court will hear a case testing whether the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits sentencing a teen to life in prison without parole. Punishment is generally deemed "cruel" if it's more than "graduated and proportional." It is constitutionally "unusual" if imposed so infrequently "that a national consensus has developed against it." If those concepts sound squishy and vague to you, well, you can just imagine what Antonin Scalia is feeling right now. [more ...] ...

Juvenile Sentencing and the Eight Amendment
Lawyers, Guns and Money — Lithwick does a good job of summarizing the issues surrounding upcoming oral arguments about whether the 8th Amendment proscribes life-without-parole sentences for juveniles, but one set of facts under consideration raises another set of questions: ...

Under Eighteen to Life
The American Prospect Articles — ... which banned the death penalty for offenses committed by juveniles, the Court acknowledged that children are considered different in the eyes of the court. Now, the Court is essentially considering whether to extend its conclusion about the death penalty in Roper to lifetime confinement sentences for juveniles. Throughout the morning arguments, Gowdy, representing Graham, repeated the phrase "children are different than adults." Drawing parallels from the Court's previous Roper rhetoric that "death is different," Gowdy attempted to persuade the justices that juveniles are ...