In 2007, I wrote that convicted murderer Robert Cameron Houston was "the first juvenile offender to enter the Utah State Prison with no hope of dying anywhere but in prison." The... In 2007, I wrote ...

Draper and Adamcik were ultimately convicted of Stoddart’s murder, and both were given the sentence of life in prison without parole. ‘The Scream Murder: A True Teen Horror Story’, revisits the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...