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Mandatory Life Without Parole May Violate 8th Amendment Under Miller
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
In Miller v. Alabama, United States Supreme Court held that imposing a mandatory sentence on a child offender constituted a cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment. The question remained whether the… Full Transcript
19 Years of Torture and Counting
Lorenzo Cat Johnson
When I was illiterate to corruption in our judicial system, I believed that malicious prosecutions of innocent people only existed in movies and fiction books. That was until a crooked cop would change my life… Full Transcript
Chained As Children
Mumia Abu-Jamal
In 2012 the U.S. Supreme Court decided that mandatory life sentences for juveniles was a violation of the Constitution’s Eighth Amendment prohibition against “cruel and unusual punishments.” Ever since then almost a dozen states have… Full Transcript
Moratorium
Kevin Cooper
by Kevin Cooper. I am a poor African American, innocent man on death row in America. These are three very important matters that the United States Supreme Court doesn’t acknowledge when it comes to the… Full Transcript
About my federal lawsuit. Back in 2017, I filed a federal lawsuit pursuant to Title 42 of the United States Code, Section 1983. Even though I applied for, and was granted, poor person status under… Full Transcript