The Marshall Project in collaboration with Mother Jones published a piece highlighting the problems associated with sentencing children to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
“Tony Clayton was 30 years old, and just two years out from passing the Louisiana bar, when he walked into court in February of 1994, prepared to try his first murder case. He was, in his words, a ‘braggadocious kind of little young jit,’ determined to prove himself with a case that would test even the most veteran of prosecutors.