A14 Court Revisits Sentencing Law The Supreme Court, in a decision indicating that its re-examination of the role of judges in criminal sentencing is far from over, overturned a 15-year mandatory sentence that a federal appeals court had ordered imposed on a "career criminal".
"Time and time again I found myself surprised into revisiting a sentence or exchange of dialogue – first to grab it thoroughly, and then to delight in it again," wrote Liz Jensen.
This Tuesday, the California legislature will vote on a measure to revisit the sentences of some 21,000 inmates sentenced as juveniles, provided they've shown a decade of good behavior.
A fair-minded society should revisit life sentences and decide whether an offender deserves to remain in prison or be released on parole.
You couldn't be more right when you write that "a fair-minded society should revisit life sentences" ("The Misuse of Life Without Parole," editorial, Sept. 13).
Malawi had started to revisit the sentences of death row prisoners en masse, and maybe the work there by Cornell's International Human Rights Clinic would result in a few dozen people walking free.
Now those laws are undergoing new scrutiny, as states revisit long sentences for drug crimes that have led to mass incarceration and as they face a new drug epidemic, this time opioid addiction.
Photograph: Arun Sankar K/AP 2.26pm GMT Today's picture from the past revisits the sentencing of Mandela to life imprisonment in 1964.
In March, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao said the Supreme People's Court should handle Ms. Wu's case carefully, and in April, the court ordered a lower court to revisit her sentence.
"They're having to revisit pleading, sentencing and even post-conviction relief for those who are non-citizens".
