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First Article

A Washington Post article entitled “Supreme Court says states may not impose mandatory life sentences on juvenile murderers” dated June 25, 2012

Summary

The article highlights issue of Court system in the United States where a change has been occurred in the life sentence mandatory punishments. After voting by Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan against life sentences of mandatory nature, parole has been permitted for the juvenile offenders. The decision was taken in order to rationalize the prohibition of unusual punishment and cruel thereby following a trend of treating juvenile and adult offenders differently (Barnes, ...