High court moves away from leniency for minors who murder

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://www.theindianalawyer.com/articles/high-court-moves-away-from-leniency-for-minors-who-murder

After more than a decade in which the Supreme Court moved gradually toward more leniency for minors convicted of murder, the justices on Thursday moved the other way.

The high court ruled 6-3 along liberal-conservative lines against a Mississippi inmate sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for fatally stabbing his grandfather when the defendant was 15 years old. The case is important because it marks a break with the court’s previous rulings and is evidence of the impact of a newly more conservative court.

The case before the justices has to do with sentencing juveniles to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The Supreme Court had previously said that those sentences should be rare. The question the justices were answering in this case concerned what courts must do before deciding to impose one of those sentences.

The “argument that the sentencer must make a finding of permanent incorrigibility is inconsistent with the Court’s precedents,” Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote for the majority.

[Takket]

1. i don't think its asking too much...

that if we are going to confine a person to prison without parole for the next 60 years of a 15 year old's life, that we take a few weeks to determine if that person is "permanently incorrigible".

[MarineCombatEngineer]

2. +100. nt