Lotts was sentenced in Missouri's St. Francois County Circuit Court in 2002 to life in prison without parole for first-degree murder in his stepbrother's stabbing death. It made no difference that at ...

On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge John Corbett O’Meara ordered an end to life-without-parole sentencing for juveniles in the state of Michigan. The order comes a year after the U.S. Supreme Court ...

The United States remains the only country in the world that still permits children to be sentenced to life in prison.

Maryland doesn’t have mandatory life-without-parole sentences, but critics note that no juvenile serving a life sentence in Maryland has been paroled in the last two decades. The post 300 juveniles ...

In the early 2000s, Pocatello, Idaho, seemed to feel like a safe, sleepy town where nothing bad happened. That all changed in late September 2006, when 16-year-old Cassie Jo Stoddart was found stabbed ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana parole board granted parole on Wednesday to Henry Montgomery, whose Supreme Court case was instrumental in extending the possibility of freedom to hundreds of people ...

Arizona remains among a shrinking number of states that allow life without parole for children convicted of homicide. These cases involve devastating harm, permanent loss and enduring grief for ...

A new bill introduced at the Rhode Island State House would, if passed, eliminate the possibility of life without parole for youth offenders. "It's time to reexamine life without parole for juvenile ...

Since the 2022-23 session of the Wisconsin Legislature, a bill (SB-801/AB-845) has been discussed that would eliminate the court-imposed sentence of life without parole for a juvenile (under 18 years ...

Arizona remains among a shrinking number of states that allow life without parole for children convicted of homicide. These cases involve devastating harm, permanent loss and enduring grief for ...