Would You Want a Teenage Killer Locked Up for Life?
5 min readJun 8, 2021
Key points
- In 2012, Miller vs. Alabama eliminated automatic life without parole sentences for juveniles except those deemed “permanently incorrigible.”
- In April 2021, the Supreme Court ruled that juveniles no longer had to be permanently incorrigible to get life without parole.
- Since 2012, several hundred adults who were arrested and convicted as juveniles have been resentenced.