Describe the trends in executing or incarcerating for life without parole children under 18 years of age
What will be an ideal response?
• The U.S. Supreme Court has banned execution of children under 18 years at the time they committed homicide and has banned life without parole for juveniles under 18 years who commit non-homicide offenses.
• The rulings are premised upon the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments. The Court considered offenses committed by juvenile offenders to be less "morally reprehensible" than those committed by adults.
• Some of the trends in this area have been reactions to States executing younger and younger offenders, concerns about the quality of legal representation afforded juveniles, scientific research indicating brain development, and evolving standards of decency. The latter expression relates to how society changes over time regarding humane treatment of criminal offenders.
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