I'm sure they'll turn their lives around and contribute to society when they are released in a few years.
Fortunately, that's not exactly right.
SCOTUS held unconstitutional a statute requiring mandatory life without parole for juveniles, but said that a judge can still give such a sentence to a juvenile on a case-by-case basis.
Great point about the SCOTUS ruling. I’d like the “justices” who voted that way to explain to Mr. Mora’s widow and 12 children how executing the monsters that brutally murdered him would be “cruel and unusual”.