Illinois Supreme Court Building SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A state prosecutor told the Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday that a man who was 19 when he participated in a double murder in 1993 shouldn’t be able to claim his life sentence was unfair because he was armed and aware of the plot to kidnap and punish rival gang members. Antonio House maintains that he was a young lookout “some distance away” away during the gang-revenge slayings in Chicago and was therefore improperly sentenced to life for the murders and two consecutive 30-year terms for kidnapping. House has been appealing the case since 2001. He’s attempting to expand the age limit for imposing life-without-parole sentences on young offenders amid mounting research that shows the brain is still developing key decision-making functions well past the age of 20.