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Lifetime Sentence
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Legal Bites
Is Life Imprisonment Till Natural Life Constitutional? Supreme Court Explains
"We only wonder how the petitioners have raised this contention. A five-judge Bench has said that sentences for the remainder of natural life are valid." With this emphatic observation, the Supreme Court…
The Justice Gap
‘Morally indefensible’: radical new campaign to abolish life sentences for children
There are at least 90 children in prisons across the UK serving life sentences, it was revealed at a new initiative by JENGbA (Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association) to…
Legal Research and Analysis
A life sentence is modified to 20
A life sentence is modified to 20 years imprisonment in a 2015 rape and murder case: Delhi High Court Author (s) SK MD TAUHID Table of Contents source – Live…
Sentencing Law and Policy
The Sentencing Project releases new report "Justice Delayed: The Growing Wait for Parole After a Life Sentence"
The Sentencing Project has today released to this new report titled "Justice Delayed: The Growing Wait for Parole After a Life Sentence," and that title foreshadows its findings. Here is…
Criminal
The Sentencing Project releases new report “Justice Delayed: The Growing Wait for Parole After a Life Sentence”
The Sentencing Project has today released to this new report titled "Justice Delayed: The Growing Wait for Parole After a Life Sentence," and that title foreshadows its findings. Here is…
Criminal
Prez Trump on social media states he has ordered federal officials to “REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ!”
In this Truth Social post last night, Prez Donald Trump stated: "I am directing the Bureau of Prisons, together with the Department of Justice, FBI, and Homeland Security, to reopen…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Effective coverage from <em>Bolts</em> of juvenile and young adult sentencing developments in two states
Regular readers know that I consider Bolts as must-read for many reasons, and particularly for its effective coverage of a range of state and local criminal justice issues. In the…
Sentencing Law and Policy
The Sentencing Project releases "A Matter of Life: The Scope and Impact of Life and Long Term Imprisonment in the United States"
The Sentencing Project has long provided the most extensive coverage and data on life sentences in the US, and its latest major report on this front was released today under…
Criminal
The Sentencing Project releases “A Matter of Life: The Scope and Impact of Life and Long Term Imprisonment in the United States”
The Sentencing Project has long provided the most extensive coverage and data on life sentences in the US, and its latest major report on this front was released today under…
Sentencing Law and Policy
"The Meaning of Life, In Michigan: Mercy from Life Sentences Under the State Constitution"
The title of this post is the title of this new paper authored by David Shapiro and Molly Bernstein available via SSRN. Here is its abstract: Properly understood, the “cruel…