{"id":33257,"date":"2012-06-26T16:00:43","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T16:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/supreme_court_says_states_may_not_impose_mandatory_life_sentences_on_juveni\/"},"modified":"2012-06-26T16:00:43","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T16:00:43","slug":"supreme_court_says_states_may_not_impose_mandatory_life_sentences_on_juveni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33257","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court says states may not impose mandatory life sentences on juvenile murderers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>(Assiduous blog readers may remember we took a special interest <a href=\"http:\/\/new.kendallharmon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/index.php\/t19\/article\/43095\">in this case earlier this year<\/a>)<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>A divided Supreme Court on Monday said states may not impose on juvenile murderers mandatory life sentences without the possibility of parole.<\/p>\n<p>The 5 to 4 ruling said such mandatory sentences offend the constitution\u2019s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, and follow a trend at the court of treating even the worst juvenile offenders differently from adults&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe court took a significant step forward by recognizing the fundamental unfairness of mandatory death-in-prison sentences that don\u2019t allow sentencers to consider the unique status of children and their potential for change,\u201d\u009d said EJI [Equal Justice Initiative]\u2019s Bryan Stevenson. \u201cThe court has recognized that children need additional attention and protection in the criminal justice system.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/supreme-court-says-states-may-not-impose-mandatory-life-sentences-on-juvenile-murderers\/2012\/06\/25\/gJQAv1H21V_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Assiduous blog readers may remember we took a special interest in this case earlier this year). A divided Supreme Court on Monday said states may not impose on juvenile murderers mandatory life sentences without the possibility of parole. The 5<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33257\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,114,151,619,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-state-government","category-teens-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}