On Thursday, all nine Justices tinkered with the machinery of locking children up forever.
To even entertain the debate is to get the issue wrong. Morally and policy-wise, locking children in prison forever is horrific.
My latest in @PostEverything:
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/0…
To even entertain the debate is to get the issue wrong. Morally and policy-wise, locking children in prison forever is horrific.
My latest in @PostEverything:
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/0…
It’s hard to overstate how regressive we are in how we treat children.
The only reason we aren’t the ONLY country willing to arrest children of any age, or the last one to abolish executing children is bc of places like Cuba, Iran, and Saudi Arabia.
Those are our peers here.
The only reason we aren’t the ONLY country willing to arrest children of any age, or the last one to abolish executing children is bc of places like Cuba, Iran, and Saudi Arabia.
Those are our peers here.
That SCOTUS, in its earlier Miller op, upheld the possibility of life without parole for children found to be “irredeemable” is... TERRIBLE... on the facts and morally.
That SCOTUS decided judges can throw away a kid’s life without even finding “irredeemability” is... vomitous.
That SCOTUS decided judges can throw away a kid’s life without even finding “irredeemability” is... vomitous.
That BRET KAVANAUGH wrote the opinion just pushes it all into a whole different level of awfulness.
And that the dissent debated the mechanics of LWOP for kids? Can’t see the forest of indescribable cruelty thru the trees of technical procedure.
And that the dissent debated the mechanics of LWOP for kids? Can’t see the forest of indescribable cruelty thru the trees of technical procedure.
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