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It's a sentence to die behind bars. in 2010, a legal office called the equal justice initiative which is in alabama, run by a really remarkable guy named brian stevenson, argued a case about the constitutionality about sentencing american kids to die in prison. the outcome of the case was a ruling that said a kid could not be sentenced to die in prison unless he had committed murder. this year, 2012, equal justice initiative and brian stevenson went back to the supreme court again. we talked to him in march after he did the oral arguments in this case. what he was arguing this time around is e...

Must at least get a hearing on what your sentence ought to be. you must at least be allowed to argue that you should not be sentenced to die in prison. no more mandatory death in prison sentences for people who commit crimes when they're kids. there are about 2,500 people in the united states who were sentenced to die in prison for something they did as a child. by virtue of today's ruling, those people will now get hearings on whether or not they ought to die in prison or get some lesser sentence that's offers them a chance to get out, ever. the united states is one of few countries that has ...

Argue that you should not be senanced to die in prison. no more mandatory death in prison sen nlss for people who commit crimes when they're kids. there are about 2,500 people in the united states who were sentenced to die in prison for something they did as a child. by virtue of today's ruling, those people will now get hearings on whether or not they ought to die in prison or get some lesser sentence that's offers them a chance to get out. the united states is one of few countries that has or uses the death penalty for any of our citizens. more than two thirds of the countries in the world h...

Conservatives on the court were against this ruling. chief justice john roberts all but shouting from the pages of his angry diisn't that it couldn't be cruel and unusual to sentence kids to die in america because we do it to so many of them. if you sentence 2,000 kids to die in america, that's no longer unusual, right? it's freak wnlt. samuel alito was so angry he read it from the bench out loud with volume. these days, anthony kennedy sides with the conservatives on just about every, but on the issue of sentencing american children to die, anthony kennedy has sided in the past and today agai...

Which is in alabama, run by a really remarkable guy named brian stevenson, argued a case about the unconstitutionality about sentencing american kids to die in prison. the outcome of the case was a ruling that said a kid could not be sentenced to die in prison unless he had committed murder. this year, 2012, equal justice initiative and brian stevenson went back to court again. we talked to him in march after he did the oral arguments in this case. what he was arguing is even if your crime is murder, if you commit that crime while you're a kid, the government should not be able to sentence you...