Word: grievousã
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...someone just beginning an important stage of personal development. An individual’s brain and behavior change drastically throughout adolescence. It is not right, nor is it realistically possible, to assume that a 13-year-old who is guilty of a crime—no matter how grievous??€”will remain a criminal for the rest of his life. Confining a child to prison for the rest of his or her life constitutes cruel and unusual punishment, a type of injustice that the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution prohibits. The cruelty of confining a child to a lifetime...
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