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Life Without Parole Okayed for 13-Year Old Killer
Loaded on June 15, 1991
published in Prison Legal News
June, 1991, page 5
On April 15 the U.S. Supreme Court refused to overturn a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole for a Washington state 13-year old boy convicted of murder. The state courts had held that the sentence did not violate the eighth amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual …
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