Supreme Court rules that juveniles can not be sentenced to life in prison for a crime other than homicide.

Yesterday, in the case of Graham v. Florida, the U.S. Supreme Court held that juvenile offenders charged with crimes other than homicide can not be sentenced to life in prison. The vote in favor of overturning the sentence of life in this particular case was 6-3 with Justices Kennedy, Stevens, Breyer, Sotomeyer, and Ginsburg writing the majority opinion. Chief Justice Roberts, who was the sixth vote, wrote a concurring opinion in which he makes it clear that although he agrees that the penalty of life in prison in this particular case was cruel and unusual, he would not go as far as the other five justices and would instead limit the Court's holding to the facts of this particular case. Justices Thomas, Scalia, and Alito dissented.