Didn’t read the article and am assuming that because the AP doesn’t address it in the lead paragraph that this inmate really had to work at it to earn life imprisonment.
It just tugs the heartstrings that Elena Kagen is concerned about these poor women who didn’t know that murder was wrong when they were teenagers. /s
You assumed correctly. If she got life working as a drug mule, the AP would've mentioned it in the headline. You have to read several paragraphs past her abusive childhood to learn the details of the grisly murder she played a significant role in.
"Imposition of a State's most severe penalties on juvenile offenders cannot proceed as though they were not children," Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the court's majority.
Has it occurred to this hack that imposition of less than a state's most severe penalties on brutal murderers cannot proceed as though they were not brutal murderers?
Hyde instructed Hernandez to walk to Kmart and buy him a knife, then lure a man to the house so he could rob and kill him . . . stabbed 25 times, his head nearly severed . . . Along with Hyde's hair, two strands of Hernandez's hair were found in the blood on Cotaling's hand . . .
I hope Hernandez finds Jesus and finds God's forgiveness, and I am happy to forgive her, but I am not willing to gamble the lives of other innocents on her sincerity. Perhaps if she is released as Kagan wishes, she can move in with Kagan. I am more than willing to gamble Kagan's life on a foolish degree of liberal optimism.