Ira v. Janecka

CHÁVEZ, Justice.

{1} During the last thirteen years the Supreme Court of the United States, relying on neuroscientific evidence of adolescent behavior, issued three opinions declaring that certain sentences imposed on juvenile offenders violate the Eighth Amendment prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment. Roper v. Simmons , 543 U.S. 551 , 125 S.Ct. 1183 , 161 L.Ed.2d (2005) (prohibiting the imposition of the death penalty for a crime committed by a juvenile); Graham v. Florida , 560 U.S. 48 , 130 S.Ct. 2011 , 176 L.Ed.2d 825 (2010) (holding that no juvenile could be sentenced to life…