Tatum v. Arizona

This Court explained in Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. ----, 132 S.Ct. 2455 , 183 L.Ed.2d 407 (2012), that a sentencer is "require[d] ... to take into account how children are different, and how those differences counsel against irrevocably sentencing them to a lifetime in prison." Id., at ----, 132 S.Ct., at 2469 . Children are "constitutionally different from adults for purposes of sentencing" in light of their lack of maturity and under-developed sense of responsibility, their susceptibility to negative influences and outside pressure, *12 and their less well-formed character traits. Id., at…