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A very disappointing ruling today from #SCOTUS in Jones v. Mississippi - https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/18-1259_8njq.pdf
An "abrupt" break from Miller and Montgomery, as the dissenters put it.
An "abrupt" break from Miller and Montgomery, as the dissenters put it.
/2 As Sotomayor summarizes, "In the Court’s view, a sentencer never need determine, even implicitly, whether a juvenile convicted of homicide is one of “those rare children whose crimes reflect irreparable corruption.”
/3 The majority emphasizes that states can take action, and have, by ending the practice & "States may also establish rigorous proportionality or other substantive appellate review of life-without-parole sentences."
/3 The majority says "Determining the proper sentence in such a case raises profound questions of morality and social policy."
It does. No other country in the world permits juvenile life without parole sentences. What could be more cruel and unusual?
It does. No other country in the world permits juvenile life without parole sentences. What could be more cruel and unusual?
/4 And the idea that permanent incorrigibility need not be required, to sentence a kid to LWOP?
