The Pros and Cons of Cruel and Unusual Punishment Roper v case of 2005. .Simmons. In the Roper case, Christopher Simmons challenged his death sentence for murder at age 17 because he claimed he was an "immature and irresponsible juvenile." The Supreme Court overturned his conviction, saying there was a national consensus against the death penalty for juveniles because many states had rejected this viable form of punishment. A sentence of life without parole is equivalent to the death penalty for a juvenile because the child has a hope of living a semi-normal life that ended at a young age, in this case 14 years old. If it was your child, would you want him to stay in prison for the rest of his life, with no hope or reason to live? Or would you like them, even if it was an incredibly long sentence, to have at least a glimmer of hope that maybe one day they will escape the freezing hell of the prison walls and will feel the sun on their faces again? When a sentence of life in prison with parole is imposed, it does not guarantee that the person will be released, it simply gives them a glimmer of hope and a reason to

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