Supreme Court rules mandatory life sentences for children are unconstitutional

Posted: June 27, 2012 in Uncategorized

Reblogged from TED Blog:

At TED2012, lawyer Bryan Stevenson made an impassioned case for confronting racial and economic injustice in the American justice system. And, he argued, confronting that means changing the way the system approaches child offenders. In his talk he says: "I represent children. A lot of my clients are very young. The United States is the only country in the world where we sentence 13-year-old children to die in prison.

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