Archiv vom 13. Juni 2014

[col. writ. 6/13/14] © ’14 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 In 2012 the U.S. Supreme Court decided that mandatory life sentences for juveniles was a violation of the Constitution’s Eighth Amendment prohibition against “cruel and unusual punishment”.
Ever since then almost a dozen states have resolved how their states should address retroactivity issues, or whether this new constitutional rule applied to older cases.
Six states have decided yes -including, for example, […]

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