{"id":11263,"date":"2011-11-10T15:14:29","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T20:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11263"},"modified":"2011-11-10T14:48:54","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T19:48:54","slug":"supreme-court-to-look-at-life-in-prison-for-juveniles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11263","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court To Look At Life In Prison For Juveniles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether juveniles convicted of killing someone may be locked up for life with no chance of parole, a follow-up to last year&#8217;s ruling barring such sentences for teenagers whose crimes do not include killing.<\/p>\n<p>The justices will examine a pair of cases from the South involving young killers who are serving life sentences for crimes they committed when they were 14.<\/p>\n<p>Both cases were brought by the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Ala. The institute said that life without parole for children so young &#8220;is cruel and unusual&#8221; and violates the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>The group says roughly six dozen people in 18 states are under life sentences and ineligible for parole for crimes they committed at 13 or 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether juveniles convicted of killing someone may be locked up for life with no chance of parole, a follow-up to last year&#8217;s ruling barring such sentences for teenagers whose crimes do not include killing. The justices will examine a pair of cases from the South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}