Holding: The Eighth Amendment does not require a finding that a juvenile is permanently incorrigible before imposing a sentence of life without parole.
Judgment: Affirmed, 6-3, in an opinion by Justice Kavanaugh on April 22, 2021. Justice Thomas filed an opinion concurring in the judgment. Justice Sotomayor filed a dissenting opinion, in which Justices Breyer and Kagan joined.
SCOTUS's 6-3 ruling in Jones v. Mississippi basically says:
When a court decides to sentence a child to life in prison, the judge doesn’t have to lay out facts explaining why it thinks the child has no redeeming qualities.
(As you might imagine, Sotomayor wrote the dissent.)
— Adrienne Lawrence (@AdrienneLaw) April 22, 2021
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