Juvenile life-without-parole sentence too harsh, reports says

Boston Globe - Jonathan Saltzman - ‎Sep 29, 2009‎

Last year, after citing similar neuroscientific evidence, Human Rights
Watch called sentences of life without parole for juveniles “cruel, unfair, ...

For the youngest killers, a glimmer of redemption

Boston Globe - ‎Oct 1, 2009‎

Massachusetts, however, is an outlier with its insistence on life without parole.
Thomas Grisso, a psychologist at the University of Massachusetts Medical ...

Don't throw away the key on all juvenile killers

Boston Globe - Scott Harshbarger - ‎Oct 2, 2009‎

When a juvenile is sentenced to life without parole, the state spends $2.5 million
to keep that person in prison until he dies. That's too much taxpayer ...