Texas has a national and international reputation for maintaining an assembly-line death penalty operation, imposing insanely long prison sentences (e.g., 40 life sentences plus 60 years, the longest in Texas history); and a juvenile justice system that treats its youthful…
Category: Juvenile Criminal Law
Apr.30
2021
2021
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Criminal Law | Juvenile Criminal Law | SCOTUS
According to the Sentencing Project, there are more than 206,000 people serving life sentences in the United States—6,000 of whom are women. More than 53,000 of those life sentences are without the possibility of parole. In addition to these life…
Jan.29
2021
2021
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Juvenile Criminal Law
There are two justice systems in this country: One for adults and the other for juveniles. There are times, with certain crimes come into play, that these two justice systems intersect.
A recent example is a 15-year-old boy in…