WACO, Texas, May 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As the Supreme Court prepares to announce rulings in two landmark cases, a law professor who has experienced the rare occurrence of both winning a case before the Court and having his work quoted in another Court opinion says sentencing juveniles to life imprisonment with no chance of parole is unconstitutional. The Court is expected to hand down rulings soon in Sullivan v. Florida and Graham v. Florida, two cases which both deal with minors sentenced to life in prison for committing crimes other than murder. Mark Osler believes the Court should rule that life without parole for minors constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
JuvenilesSex offendersEighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishmentDue processR.C. 2152.86Automatic, lifelong registration and notification requirements of R.C. 2152.86 violate due process and prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment for juvenile sex offenders tried within juvenile system.
DEMOCRATIC California state Sen. Loni Hancock is pushing legislation to end California's death penalty. "Capital punishment is an expensive failure and an example of the dysfunction of our prisons," she explained in a statement. "California's death row is the largest and most costly in the United States. It is not helping to protect our state; it is helping to bankrupt us. You have to hand this to death penalty opponents: For decades, capital punishment opponents have tried to thwart California's 1978 death penalty law with frivolous appeals that clog courts, delay punishment and burn through taxpayers' dollars. They now have been so successful that they can argue that California's death penalty doesn't work and costs too much.
JACKSON - Outgoing Supreme Court Justice Oliver Diaz Jr.'s impassioned call for an end to the death penalty has drawn both criticism and praise. In what was likely his departing dissent as his tenure on Mississippi's highest court ends, Diaz says society finally must recognize that "even as murderers commit the most cruel and unusual crime, so too do executioners render cruel and unusual punishment.
Tim Kennedy made his season debut last week, returning to the NHL with the Florida Panthers after a seven-month exile that included five teams, three organizations and an equipment bag full of heartache. Yes, hockey can be a cold, unsentimental business riddled with cruel and unusual punishment. Key word: business.
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