In Florida, Joe Sullivan, who case will be heard soon by the U.S. Supreme Court, was sentenced to lifewithout parole for 1989 rape of an elderly woman.
In 2005, groups that opposed life sentences without parole for young people, began to gain traction after the U.S. Supreme Court abolished the death penalty for crimes committed by 16 and 17 year olds in the landmark case Roper v.