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"Should kids be sentenced to life in prison?"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this article from Wisconsin which effectively review the latest from in the battle over juvenile offenders getting LWOP sentences.  Here are excerpts: In 1998, Omer Ninham was an abused 14-year-old child of alcoholic parents. He was also a murderer. After throwing a 13-year-old boy to his death from the top of a hospital parking ramp, Ninham was sentenced to life in prison without parole ? essentially condemned to die in prison. Last week, the Wisconsin Supreme Court decided to review Ninham?s sentence in a case that could determine how age should factor into the sentencing of kids who are sent to adult court. Ninham?s is one of a number of cases that have been taken up by the Montgomery, Ala.-based Equal Justice Initiative in an effort to turn back laws at both the state and federal level that allow kids to be sent away for life...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on October 18, 2010 (boomark / email).