Supreme Court ruling will make it easier to sentence juveniles to life sentence without parole

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The Supreme Court has upheld the sentence of life without parole for a juvenile offender in a 6-3 decision, rejecting arguments that such sentences should have additional limits

Justice Brett Kavanaugh penned the decision for his conservative colleagues, holding that a sentencer will not have to make a separate finding that the juvenile offender was incapable of being rehabilitated.The ruling will make it easier for those who committed their crime under the age of 18 to be sentenced to prison for life without parole.Sotomayor: 'This is the scariest of times, and the most exciting times'It also highlights the impact of the court's new conservative majority.

"Judges are split on how seriously to take John Roberts' abortion opinionJustice Sonia Sotomayor, writing for her liberal colleagues Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, penned a stinging dissent charging the majority with gutting recently decided cases without directly saying so."Time and again, this court has recognized that children are constitutionally different from adults for the purposes of sentencing," Sotomayor wrote.

 

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Murder is murder. The grandfather who was killed doesn’t get another chance cuz his assailant was only 15.

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