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In July 2003, 52-year-old Cole Cannon was beaten with a baseball bat and left to die in his Lawrence County, Ala., mobile home set on fire by his killers. Evan Miller, a 14-year-old, along with an accomplice, was charged. Miller went to trial and was convicted of murder and sentenced to a mandatory term of life imprison without the possibility of parole. Miller filed an appeal, arguing that sentencing a 14-year-old to life without the possibility of parole constituted cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution. In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed. Justice Elena Kagan, writing for the majority in Miller v. Alabama in what would become a landmark decision wrote, “Mandatory life without parole for a juvenile precludes consideration of his chronological age and its hallmark features among them, immaturity, impetuosity, and failure to appreciate risks and consequences. It prevents taking into account the family and home

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