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US Supreme Court rules on juvenile life terms, immigration law (access required)

POSTED: Tuesday, June 26th, 2012 at 2:14 pm

BY: KIMBERLY ATKINS, Dolan Media Newswires

In two widely anticipated rulings, the Supreme Court ruled the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment bars juvenile homicide offenders from being sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.

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