This editorial will appear in Thursday’s print edition.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision this week on juvenile sentencing has been widely misconstrued.
The court did not forbid judges from sentencing the youngest murderers to life in prison without a chance of parole. It did forbid states from automatically requiring – through mandatory sentencing schemes – that killers be locked up until death for murders they committed as juveniles.
The ruling might affect six inmates from Pierce County, including two of the perpetrators of Tacoma’s infamous 1998 Trang Dai massacre.
The most dramatic Pierce County case – possibly the most dramatic …
