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This undated provided by the Utah Department of Corrections in 2017 shows Morris Mullins. Utah's two prisoners serving life without parole for slayings they carried out as 17-year-olds both tried and failed to appeal their sentences, keeping them in prison despite key rulings from the U.S. Supreme Court on juvenile lifers. (Utah Department of Corrections, via AP)
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This undated photo released by the Georgia Department of Corrections in 2017 shows convicted murderer Robert Henry Veal. The state Supreme Court vacated Robert Veal’s no-parole sentence for murder, rape, armed robbery and other charges at 17, emphasizing that such sentences should be permitted only for the “rarest of juvenile offenders.” (Georgia Department of Corrections via AP)
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FILE - In this Wednesday, May 14, 1997 file photo, Jason Blake Bryant, 14, is led to the Greene County Courthouse in Greeneville, Tenn., for a preliminary hearing concerning killing three members of the Lillelid family on April 6, 1997 in Greene County. Six juveniles from Kentucky are charged with the crime. The family was carjacked at a highway rest area near Greeneville as they returned home to Knoxville from a Jehovah's Witness Convention. (AP Photo/Earl Neikirk)
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This undated photo provided by the Tennessee Department of Correction in 2017 shows Jason Bryant. Bryant is serving a life sentence for a crime he committed when he was 14 years old. He and and five other juveniles from Kentucky killed Vidar and Delfina Lillelid and their 6-year-old daughter, Tabitha, and gravely wounded the couple's 2-year-old son after kidnapping the family at a rest area in eastern Tennessee in 1997. (Tennessee Department of Correction via AP)
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This undated photo released by the Kentucky Department of Corrections in 2017 shows convicted murderer Michael Fugate. Fugate and three others convicted of murder as juveniles in Kentucky are using recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions to challenge their sentences. Kentucky does not allow life without parole for juveniles. However, since 1981, the four who were minors at the time of their crimes have received sentences of life without parole or “functional” life without parole through various circumstances. (Kentucky Department of Corrections via AP)
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This undated photo released by the Kentucky Department of Corrections in 2017 shows convicted murderer Kevin Stanford. Stanford and three others convicted of murder as juveniles in Kentucky are using recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions to challenge their sentences. Kentucky does not allow life without parole for juveniles. However, since 1981, the four who were minors at the time of their crimes have received sentences of life without parole or “functional” life without parole through various circumstances. (Kentucky Department of Corrections via AP)
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This undated photo released by the Kentucky Department of Corrections in 2017 shows convicted murderer Sophal Phon. Phon and three others convicted of murder as juveniles in Kentucky are using recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions to challenge their sentences. Kentucky does not allow life without parole for juveniles. However, since 1981, the four who were minors at the time of their crimes have received sentences of life without parole or “functional” life without parole through various circumstances. (Kentucky Department of Corrections via AP)
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This undated photo released by the Kentucky Department of Corrections in 2017 shows convicted murderer David Buchanan. Buchanan and three others convicted of murder as juveniles in Kentucky are using recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions to challenge their sentences. Kentucky does not allow life without parole for juveniles. However, since 1981, the four who were minors at the time of their crimes have received sentences of life without parole or “functional” life without parole through various circumstances. (Kentucky Department of Corrections via AP)
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This October 2016 photo shows Terrance Graham in Florida State Prison at Raiford, Fla. At 16, Graham had been ordered to spend the rest of his life behind bars for a 2004 armed home invasion. Graham was on probation at the time after participating in an attempted restaurant robbery a year earlier. Graham had no option for freedom other than executive clemency. But the Supreme Court ruled that life without parole for a crime that doesn't involve murder is unconstitutional. Graham was ultimately resentenced to 25 years in prison, making him eligible to leave jail by 2026. (Tessa Duvall/The Florida Times-Union via AP)
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In this December 2016 photo, Terrance Graham holds the high school diploma he earned while he was incarcerated in Florida State Prison at Raiford, Fla. At 16, Graham had been ordered to spend the rest of his life behind bars for a 2004 armed home invasion. Graham was on probation at the time after participating in an attempted restaurant robbery a year earlier. Graham had no option for freedom other than executive clemency. But the Supreme Court ruled that life without parole for a crime that doesn't involve murder is unconstitutional. Graham was ultimately resentenced to 25 years in prison, making him eligible to leave jail by 2026. (Tessa Duvall/The Florida Times-Union via AP)
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This Feb 5, 2015 photo released by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows Wallace Priester, who is serving two life without parole prison sentences for shooting two teens to death when he himself was 15. Now 31, he is one of more than three dozen state inmates eligible for new sentences and a possible shot at release in the wake of Supreme Court decisions banning mandatory life without parole for juveniles. (South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP)
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This combination of photos shows Johnny Beck Jr. on March 2, 1995 and Friday, May 26, 2017. Beck is one of 67 former teen offenders in North Carolina serving life without parole, even after after U.S. Supreme Court decisions ordered states to reconsider whether young people should be sentenced to prison for the rest of their lives. Six of those 67 were resentenced to the same terms after the Supreme Court move. (Wake County Government via AP, AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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In this Friday, May 26, 2017 photo, Johnny Beck Jr. listens to a question during an interview at the Franklin Correctional Center in Bunn, N.C. Beck is one of 67 former teen offenders in North Carolina serving life without parole, even after after U.S. Supreme Court decisions ordered states to reconsider whether young people should be sentenced to prison for the rest of their lives. Six of those 67 were resentenced to the same terms after the Supreme Court move. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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This undated photo released by the West Virginia Department of Corrections in 2017 shows convicted murderer Larry Hall. A handful of West Virginia inmates sentenced to life in prison without parole for murders committed as juveniles, including Hall, will have their cases reviewed in 2017. (West Virginia Department of Corrections via AP)
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This undated photo released by the West Virginia Department of Corrections in 2017 shows convicted murderer Michael Day. A handful of West Virginia inmates sentenced to life in prison without parole for murders committed as juveniles, including Day, will have their cases reviewed in 2017. (West Virginia Department of Corrections via AP)
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This undated photo released by the West Virginia Department of Corrections in 2017 shows convicted murderer Lawrence Redman. A handful of West Virginia inmates sentenced to life in prison without parole for murders committed as juveniles, including Redman, will have their cases reviewed in 2017. (West Virginia Department of Corrections via AP)
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This undated photo released by the West Virginia Department of Corrections in 2017 shows convicted murderer William Wayne. A handful of West Virginia inmates sentenced to life in prison without parole for murders committed as juveniles, including Wayne, will have their cases reviewed in 2017. (West Virginia Department of Corrections via AP)
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This undated photo released by the West Virginia Department of Corrections in 2017 shows convicted murderer John Moss Jr. A handful of West Virginia inmates sentenced to life in prison without parole for murders committed as juveniles, including Moss, will have their cases reviewed in 2017. (West Virginia Department of Corrections via AP)
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This undated photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction in 2017 shows Devonere Simmonds, of Columbus, Ohio, serving a life sentence without parole for a July 2013 crime spree that left two people dead, when Simmonds was 17. States are taking a new look at juvenile life without parole after the U.S. Supreme Court in 2016 applied its ban on no-parole sentences for minors retroactively, and said that all but the rare irredeemable juvenile offender should have a chance at parole one day. (Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction via AP)
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This undated photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction in 2017 shows T.J. Lane, serving a life sentence without parole for a Feb. 27, 2012, shooting at a Chardon, Ohio high school that killed three teenage boys, when Lane was 17. States are taking a new look at juvenile life without parole after the U.S. Supreme Court in 2016 applied its ban on no-parole sentences for minors retroactively, and said that all but the rare irredeemable juvenile offender should have a chance at parole one day. (Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction via AP)
