A pair of U.S. Supreme Court decisions — the most recent issued last year — said life sentences without parole are unconstitutionally cruel and unusual when applied to juvenile criminals and must be re-evaluated.


..perhaps hers will be reevaluated and give her a shot

When thieves no longer have anything nice to steal, they'll go ahead and steal necessities of life.

if they hadn't planned on ripping him off, no one would have been killed. Pretty simple.

The law is meant to punish those who were present (and did nothing to stop it) as harshly as the ones who did the killings for a damn good reason.

The deterrent wasn't enough for her to stop the life of crime she chose.

And that's too bad... for her, she's lucky she's still alive

I think this is horrible. The law enforcement has a big involvement in this situation. Thank God for that.

Most teens don't think of all possibilities. Their reasoning skills are not fully developed at 16.
No death sentences or Lwop for teens.
jmho

she was tried as an adult, hence the life sentence... Most all states with death penalties make it a capital crime to kill someone during a robbery, which automatically calls for the death penalty... But she didn't " pull the trigger", her friend did

I may have missed something in the article but what did law enforcement do? Do their jobs?

Hi Yellowrose,

I'm not sure...who knows. Maybe, maybe not.

something we agree on. I do not agree with taking peoples lives (especially children) away, and especially because of what they DID not but 'should have' done.


the list of should haves can go on forever,, peoples actions having such harsh consequences I understand, but not their inaction

many things prevent people from acting, including fear of retaliation and/or jail,,I feel its wrong to incarcerate people for being afraid,,,,

Juvenile lifer Jennifer Pruitt will get shot at parole in 2022



Once convicted and sentenced to life behind bars when she was a teenager, Jennifer Pruitt will now have a shot at life outside of prison, an Oakland County Circuit judge decided this week.

Pruitt, who is now 41 years old, was sentenced at age 17 in 1993, then becoming one of Michigan’s juvenile lifers. She has spent more than 24 years in prison.

All of the state’s juvenile-lifer cases are now affected by two U.S. Supreme Court decisions stating that sentencing a person under the age of 18 to a mandatory life in prison without parole is “cruel and unusual punishment,” and juvenile lifers should be allowed the chance for parole or resentencing.

Good for her.

I know, what's up with that?

and good on the US Supreme Court,,

So it's good when people can just thumb their nose at the law? Got it.

I wouldnt call spending 25 years of your life being raped, beaten, and God knows what behind prison cells,, 'thumbing your nose'

but it is a good thing when the law is just and the punishment FITS the crime

Her being raped and beaten were not part of her sentence. It was unfortunate that happened and the criminals the state took responsibility for it. Bottom line, her premeditated actions cost another human being their life. An eye for an eye. You take a life, you spend yours in prison.

liberals do it everyday, they don't care about laws... They just do whatever they want and pray to their liberal god obarry, sense he taught them that laws don't matter...