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The US imposes life sentences on minors? Do I read that right or am I misreading this comment?


Yes. And not only life sentences, but life sentences without the possibility of parole. For minors.

We are literally the only country that does it. It is a heinous and barbaric practice. And, like all of our mass incarceration system, is it vastly disproportionatly applied to Black children. We are a backwards country in many, many ways.

https://www.sentencingproject.org/policy-brief/juvenile-life...


We also executed juvenile offenders until 2005.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_for_juvenil...





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