"Nationwide, Joe Sullivan is one of only two thirteen-year-old children who received life-without-parole sentences for crimes in which the victims did not die...Both of these sentences were imposed in Florida, making Florida the only state to have sentenced a thirteen-year-old to die in prison for a non-homicide."
--Bryan A. Stevenson in a legal brief challenging the sentence of Joe Sullivan, a case now before the US Supreme Court. Stevenson's quote also reminds us that Florida may soon overtake Texas and California as the state with the most ass-backwards criminal justice system.
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