Reblogged from My Blog Women in Jail:

http://sentencing.typepad.com/sentencing_law_and_policy/2012/07/iowa-gov-uses-clemency-power-to-devise-astute-sinister-response-to-miller-for-juve-lwopers.html (read here whole article)  July 16, 2012

Iowa Gov uses clemency power to devise (astute? sinister?) response to Miller for juve LWOPers

A helpful reader from Iowa alerted me to this notable story from the Hawkeye State, headlined "Branstad commutes life sentences for 38 Iowa juvenile murderers."  Here are the interesting details of how one state's governor is taking the lead in responding to last month's SCOTUS ruling in 

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