Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s Decision Bans Life Without Parole Sentences for People Under Age 21

In a Human Rights at Home blog, Noelle Gulick ’24 addresses the Mass. SJC’s recent ruling that anyone under the age of 21 cannot be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole: “This decision is a step towards limiting the large number of life without parole sentences that are given in the United States, protecting the human rights of people facing these sentences, and to the United States following international legal norms.”