The Supreme Court is now deciding on the constitutionality of putting teenagers who have killed in prison for life, without a chance for parole. In 2005, they decided that no minors may receive the death sentence for their crimes, and in 2010 that it was unconstitutional for any crime committed besides homicide.
They have chosen to take on two cases to help the court determine if teenagers really are incapable of making the same quality of decisions that fully developed adults can make.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/supreme-court-to-consider-whether-juveniles-who-kill-must-receive-possibility-of-parole/2011/11/07/gIQAeBeYwM_story.html
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