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Justices Agree to Take Up Life Without Parole for Youth

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Justices Agree to Take Up Sentencing for Young Offenders By ADAM LIPTAK Published: May 4, 2009- NY Times WASHINGTON ? The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to consider whether the reasoning that led it to strike down the death penalty for juvenile offenders four years ago should also apply to sentences of life without the possibility of parole. The court accepted two cases on the issue, both from Florida and neither involving a killing. In one, Joe Sullivan was sentenced to life without the possibility of release for raping a 72-year-old woman in 1989, when he was 13. In the other, Terrance Graham received the same sentence for participating in a home invasion robbery in 2004, when he was 17 and on probation for other crimes. In the majority opinion in the death penalty case, Roper v...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 05, 2009 (boomark / email).