There are at least 2,225 child offenders serving life without parole (LWOP) sentences in US prisons for crimes committed before they were age 18 and 2,213 are Americans. While many of the child offenders are now adults, 16% were between 13 and 15 years old at the time they committed their crimes. An estimated 59% were sentenced to life without parole for their first-ever criminal conviction. Forty-two states currently have laws allowing childThe Convention on the Rights of the Child, ratified by every country except the United States and Somalia, forbids this practice, and at least 132 countries have rejected the LWOP altogether. Thirteen other countries have laws permitting the child LWOP sentence, but there are only about 12 young offenders currently serving life sentences with no possibility of parole outside of America.ren to receive life without parole sentences.
I do not think that sentencing to life without parole for children is unfair. They did not have chance to make it up and they have a lot of days to live. I hope the judge could see possibilities in them. The judges should think to help children but not killing them like they don't care.
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thats not right to put teenagers in jail for life.. they have their whole life ahead of them to change. why do some teens get to go to juvi for some time but some are stuck for life like they have been murderers for the 13 years theyve been alive.
I agree with Samantha that is wrong for teenager to live their whole life in jail even though the teenager violated some law or killed someone. They should go to juvi and live their for like 5months but not for a life-term. They are teenagers so they should give the teenager an opportunity to start a new life.
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