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16 May 2008, 1:58 pm
  A quick search does not turn up any reference to Supreme Court's 2005 Roper decision about juveniles being ineligibility for the death penalty in the United States. [read post]
9 Nov 2009, 8:25 am
The Roper decision took scores of juveniles off death row. [read post]
13 Nov 2009, 9:03 am
In all, 2,570 juveniles are serving life-without-parole sentences in the United States, the vast majority for crimes that resulted in someone’s death. [read post]
12 Aug 2009, 2:14 am
It's a post about who we are.And it's about slippery slopes.It was just three years ago, in Roper v. [read post]
23 Oct 2008, 6:47 pm
  These include, among others, the United States's stubbornly retentioninst position in the face of the accelerating trend toward abolition among other nations, the legal-doctrinal conundrums that arise when capital defendants waive their right to defend and volunteer for execution (sometimes referred to as state-assisted suicide), and the fact that the heated controversy over the use of international law in the Supreme Court's interpretation of the… [read post]
11 Nov 2009, 1:07 pm
And: Four years ago, the Supreme Court faced a similar situation in Roper v. [read post]
11 Nov 2009, 1:20 pm
" The two current cases are the predictable result of the 2005 decision Roper v. [read post]
21 Feb 2008, 8:04 am
Virginia, 536 US 304 (2002)) and juveniles (Roper v. [read post]
25 Aug 2008, 1:11 am
Commissioner of Social Security    Eastern District of Michigan at Bay City 08a0312p.06 2008/08/22 Phelps-Roper v. [read post]
27 May 2010, 4:46 am
  And it might help account for the fact that prison sentences in the United States are so much lengthier than sentences for the same crimes in other comparable Western countries. [read post]