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- Title
SENTENCING AND PUNISHMENT: THE MISSED OPPORTUNITY FOR A CATEGORICAL RULE AGAINST LIFE WITHOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE FOR JUVENILES MILLER v. ALABAMA, 132 S. CT. 2455 (2012).
- Authors
Miller, Kevin
- Abstract
The article discusses the U.S. Supreme Court case Miller v. Alabama wherein two juveniles were sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder crime without the possibility of parole. In the first case, the defendant was found guilty of felony murder and his petition for habeas corpus was dismissed by the Arkansas Supreme Court. In the second case, an Alabama boy murdered his neighbor by arson and was sentenced with life imprisonment without parole by the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals.
- Subjects
UNITED States; UNITED States. Supreme Court; LIFE sentences; PAROLE; JUVENILE delinquency; ARSON; FELONY murder; HABEAS corpus
- Publication
University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy, 2013, Vol 24, Issue 2, p313
- ISSN
1047-8035
- Publication type
Article