Tennessee’s Supreme Court has ruled that a state law mandating life sentences for juvenile homicide offenders is unconstitutional.
FILE - The Tennessee Supreme Court building is shown Nov. 10, 2020, in Nashville, Tenn. Tennessee's Supreme Court on Friday, Nov. 18, 2022, ruled that the state's mandatory life-sentences for juvenile homicide offenders is unconstitutional, arguing that the law is cruel and unusual punishment" and violates the Eighth Amendment.
Justices Jeffrey Bivins and Roger Page argued in a dissenting opinion that state courts should not make “broad moral and social policy judgments” and juvenile sentencing decisions should be left to the legislative branch. Republican former Gov. Bill Haslam granted her clemency in 2019 and said having to wait 51 years in prison for a parole hearing was “too harsh.”
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