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Supreme Court To Hear Death in Prison for Teens Cases

By Jeralyn, Section Juvenile Offenders
Posted on Sun Nov 08, 2009 at 12:21:00 PM EST
Tags: lwop, juvenile offenders (all tags)
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(Bumped. And Sentencing Law and Policy has lots more links.)On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear two cases challenging laws imposing life sentences without parole on juveniles who are not convicted of murder.

The cases are both from Florida: The Equal Justice Initiative has an excellent synopsis of Florida v. Sullivan and Sullivan v. Graham in layman's terms.

Both cases ask the Court to address whether the differences between children and adults that led the Court to strike down the death penalty for children also make permanent imprisonment a constitutionally impermissible punishment for a child.

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