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Supreme Court to consider life without parole for juveniles sentenced for non-murder convictions?

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Supreme Court to consider juvenile 'lifers' Does life without parole for minors who didn't kill constitute cruel and unusual punishment? By David G. Savage September 28, 2009 Reporting from Washington - Joe Sullivan was 13 years old when he and two older boys broke into a home, where they robbed and raped an elderly woman. After a one-day trial in 1989, Sullivan was sentenced to life in prison with no chance for parole. Terrance Graham was 16 when he and two others robbed a restaurant. When he was arrested again a year later for a home break-in, a Florida judge said he was incorrigible. In 2005, Graham received a life term with no parole. The two young convicts represent an American phenomenon, one the Supreme Court is set to reconsider in the fall term that opens Oct...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 28, 2009 (boomark / email).