May 4, 2016

Senate votes to give some juvenile lifers a chance at parole

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Louisiana's state senators have reluctantly agreed to give people convicted of murder as teenagers a shot at parole after serving 35 years of their life sentence.

The bill, approved in a 25-8 vote Wednesday, comes in response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling. The high ...

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