Despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that says life without parole should be “rare” for juveniles, Mississippi continues to sentence two-thirds of these teens to die in prison. Eight of a dozen Mississippi juveniles convicted of capital murder have received life-without-parole sentences. All but one are Black.
Jerry Mitchell
Jerry Mitchell is an investigative reporter for the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting. Email him at Jerry.Mitchell@MississippiCIR.org.
