Jones v Mississippi Key Vocabulary Quiz 4

Under Miller v. Alabama, 567 U. S. 460 (2012), an individual who commits a homicide when he or she is under 18 may be sentenced to life without parole, but only if the sentence is not mandatory and the sentencer therefore has discretion to impose a lesser punishment.

Under Miller v. Alabama, 567 U. S. 460 (2012), an individual who commits a homicide when he or she is under 18 may be sentence to life without parole, but only if the sentence is not mandatory and the sentencer therefore has discretion to impose a lesser punishment.

Under Miller v. Alabama, 567 U. S. 460 (2012), an individual who commits a homicide when he or she is under 18 may be sentenced for life without parole, but only if the sentence is not mandatory and the sentencer therefore has discretion to impose a lesser punishment.

Under Mississippi law at the time, murder carried a mandatory sentence of life without parole.

Under Mississippi law at the time, murder carried a mandatory sentence of life-without-parole.

Jones later moved for post-conviction relief in state court, asserting among other things that his mandatory life-without-parole sentence violated the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause of the Eighth Amendment.

Jones later moved for post-conviction relief in state court, asserting among other things that his mandatory life without parole sentence violated the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause of the Eighth Amendment.