First, this Article surveys the U.S. Supreme Court\u27s decision to analogize life without parole for juveniles to the death penalty for adults, and discusses the Eighth Amendment law regarding the parameters around death penalty statutory schemes. Second, this Article examines the state legislative response to Miller, and scrutinizes it with the Court\u27s Eighth Amendment death penalty law-and the states\u27 responses to this case law-in mind. This Article highlights the failure of juvenile homicide sentencing provisions to: 1) narrow offenses that are eligible for life without parole sentences; 2) further limit, once a guilty finding is made, the categories of offenders to the most likely to have demonstrated irreparable corruption, ; a...
The practice of imposing the death penalty for crimes committed while under the age of eighteen has ...
The juvenile justice system was created to treat and to rehabilitate the juvenile offender. But ...
This article explores Eighth Amendment theories that might justify the effort by the Supreme Court t...
First, this Article surveys the U.S. Supreme Court\u27s decision to analogize life without parole fo...
Part II of this Note will look at the court\u27s decision to allow juveniles to be sentenced to life...
Over 2,589 individuals sit in prison, where they have been condemned to die for crimes they committe...
In most states, juveniles may receive the sentence of life without the possibility of parole when co...
Over the last decade, the Supreme Court of the United States has delivered a series of rulings estab...
No court has addressed the constitutional significance of sentencing juvenile murder accomplices who...
Across the country, states are grappling with how to comply with the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent dec...
(Excerpt) This Note argues that the spirit of the trilogy prohibits courts from sentencing juvenile ...
The Eighth Amendment provides that “no cruel and unusual punishment shall be inflicted.” The Supreme...
In 2003, the Missouri Supreme Court set aside the death sentence of Christopher Simmons, who was 17 ...
Miller v. Alabama appeared to strengthen constitutional protections for juvenile sentencing that the...
The Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits excessive criminal sanctions, and the Suprem...
The practice of imposing the death penalty for crimes committed while under the age of eighteen has ...
The juvenile justice system was created to treat and to rehabilitate the juvenile offender. But ...
This article explores Eighth Amendment theories that might justify the effort by the Supreme Court t...
First, this Article surveys the U.S. Supreme Court\u27s decision to analogize life without parole fo...
Part II of this Note will look at the court\u27s decision to allow juveniles to be sentenced to life...
Over 2,589 individuals sit in prison, where they have been condemned to die for crimes they committe...
In most states, juveniles may receive the sentence of life without the possibility of parole when co...
Over the last decade, the Supreme Court of the United States has delivered a series of rulings estab...
No court has addressed the constitutional significance of sentencing juvenile murder accomplices who...
Across the country, states are grappling with how to comply with the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent dec...
(Excerpt) This Note argues that the spirit of the trilogy prohibits courts from sentencing juvenile ...
The Eighth Amendment provides that “no cruel and unusual punishment shall be inflicted.” The Supreme...
In 2003, the Missouri Supreme Court set aside the death sentence of Christopher Simmons, who was 17 ...
Miller v. Alabama appeared to strengthen constitutional protections for juvenile sentencing that the...
The Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits excessive criminal sanctions, and the Suprem...
The practice of imposing the death penalty for crimes committed while under the age of eighteen has ...
The juvenile justice system was created to treat and to rehabilitate the juvenile offender. But ...
This article explores Eighth Amendment theories that might justify the effort by the Supreme Court t...