 |
         
|
COMMENTS: Cruel & Unusual
Now that Jan Crawford Greenburg has left ABC as its Supreme Court correspondent to go to CBS, ABC's World News has turned to Nightline for the services of Terry Moran. ABC was the only newscasts to assign a reporter to the Court's hearings on juvenile penal policy. At stake was a Florida law that allows judges to incarcerate teenagers for life with no possibility of parole. Moran introduced us to the case of a 13-year-old boy who raped a 72-year-old woman. He must now spend the rest of his life behind bars. "Does the Constitution command that every kid who is sentenced to prison for crimes where no one is killed be given some hope?"
READER COMMENTS BELOW:
You must be logged in to this website to leave a comment. Please click here to log in so you can participate in the discussion.
