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The decision of the court was based on two consolidated cases, Jackson v.Hobbs, No. 10-9647, and Miller v.Alabama, No. 10-9646. [5] The Los Angeles Times wrote: "In one case that came before the court, Kuntrell Jackson was 14 in November 18, 1999 when he and two other teenagers went to a video store in Arkansas planning to rob it. [6]
Eventually, in 2012, Alabama revised its life imprisonment laws for juveniles through the landmark ruling of Miller v. Alabama, making it unconstitutional for juveniles to serve mandatory life sentences without parole and the new laws allowed judges to decide whether or not to grant juveniles serving life sentences the possibility of parole ...
The execution of Alan Eugene Miller (January 20, 1965 – September 26, 2024) took place in the U.S. state of Alabama by nitrogen hypoxia. It was the second execution in both the world and state to use this particular method, following the execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith in January 2024. [ 2 ]
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Alabama failed its first attempt to lethally inject Miller on Sept. 22. Now it can only use nitrogen to execute him.
Montgomery v. Louisiana, 577 U.S. 190 (2016), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that its previous ruling in Miller v. Alabama (2012), [1] that a mandatory life sentence without parole should not apply to persons convicted of murder committed as juveniles, should be applied retroactively.
EJI argued in US Supreme Court cases Miller v. Alabama and Jackson v. Hobbs that the mandatory sentences constituted "cruel and unusual punishment" and were therefore unconstitutional. The Court ruled in these cases in June 2012 that even when cases involved homicide, mandatory life-without-parole sentences for minors 17 or younger are ...
In 2012, the Supreme Court ruled in Miller v. Alabama that mandatory life sentences without the possibility of parole for juveniles was considered a cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution, and that judges in such cases should be able to consider other factors that may influence such acts. [6]