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Supreme Court rules out some life sentences for juveniles---now to ending JLWOP for juveniles convicted of homicide!

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Supreme Court rules out some life sentences for juveniles By Robert Barnes Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, May 17, 2010; 11:55 AM The Supreme Court ruled Monday that juveniles may not be sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole unless guilty of homicide, declaring unconstitutional a sentencing practice that has been adopted by some states but, the court said, was "rejected the world over." The court ruled 5 to 4 that locking up forever those under 18 who have not killed violates the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The decision follows the court's 2005 decision that juveniles may not be executed, and expands upon its decision that the Eighth Amendment must be interpreted in light of the country's "evolving standards of decency...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 17, 2010 (boomark / email).