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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, JULY 31, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-This undated photo provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections in July 2017 shows Kempis Songster. He was a 15-year-old runaway when he joined another teen in the 1987 Philadelphia drug house stabbing of 17-year-old Anjo Pryce, a fellow gang member. At trial, Songster turned down a prosecutor's offer that would have likely seen him do eight to 10 years in prison. "I think they were the youngest guys I ever prosecuted for murder. You walk in there and see that they're children and you say, 'Wait a minute,'" says Jack McMahon, who offered the long-ago plea deal and chalks up Songster's refusal to youthful bravado. Now a defense attorney, McMahon had offered to testify for him. (Pennsylvania Department of Corrections via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, JULY 31, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-In this Wednesday, March 15, 2017 photo, Oakland County Prosecuting Attorney Jessica Cooper speaks during an interview in her office next to her statue of "Lady Justice" in Pontiac, Mich. Cooper argues that all her juvenile lifer cases are rare since they comprise just a small portion of all the criminal cases her office has handled over many years. She is seeking new natural life sentences in 44 of 49 of the county's juvenile lifer cases. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, JULY 31, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-In this March 15, 2017 photo, Evan Miller, foreground, is escorted to the Lawrence County Courthouse in Moulton, Ala. Miller was convicted at the age of 14 for the 2003 murder of Cole Cannon. At the resentencing hearing, Miller's lawyers cited his childhood of physical abuse and neglect and argued that at 14, his brain wasn't fully developed. The prosecution said his actions were those of an adult who acted mercilessly. (John Godbey/The Decatur Daily via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, JULY 31, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Candy Cheatham, daughter of murder victim Cole Cannon, sits for a photo in Decatur, Ala., on Tuesday, July 18, 2017. At a March 2017 resentencing hearing, Evan Miller apologized to Cannon's family, but the victim's daughter, Cheatham, rejected that as insincere, "empty words." She testified of nightmares and despair. "To bring this up and make the victims' families relive this, that's being cruel and unusual," she says. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, JULY 31, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Candy Cheatham, daughter of murder victim Cole Cannon, holds a photo of him in Decatur, Ala., on Tuesday, July 18, 2017. At a March 2017 resentencing hearing, Evan Miller apologized to Cannon's family, but the victim's daughter, Cheatham, rejected that as insincere, "empty words." She testified of nightmares and despair. "To bring this up and make the victims' families relive this, that's being cruel and unusual," she says. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, JULY 31, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-This combination of photos from the Lawrence County Alabama Sheriff's Office and the Alabama Department of Corrections shows Evan Miller on Nov. 4, 2005 and later. Miller was convicted at the age of 14 for the 2003 murder of Cole Cannon. (Lawrence County Alabama Sheriff's Office, Alabama Department of Corrections/The Decatur Daily via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, JULY 31, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-In this Thursday, March 16, 2017 image from video, Valencia Warren Gibbs, addresses the court during a hearing for her brother's killer, Bobby Hines, at the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice in Detroit. Gibbs and family have forgiven Hines for the murder of her brother, James Warren. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, JULY 31, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-In this Thursday, March 16, 2017 photo, Bobby Hines, with his attorney Valerie Newman, stand before Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway during a resentencing hearing in Detroit for the 1989 murder of James Warren. "As a man, I take full ownership for what I did," he tells the judge. "I tore their family up, and I didn't even realize what I was doing." (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, JULY 31, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-This combination of photos made available by the Michigan Department of Corrections shows a younger Bobby Hines and in November 2015. When he was 15, just out of eighth grade, he was in court answering for his role in the murder of a man over a friend's drug debt. He did not fire the deadly shot, but when he and two others confronted 21-year-old James Warren, Hines said something like, "Let him have it," words that sealed his conviction and punishment: mandatory life with no chance for parole. (MDOC via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, JULY 31, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-This combination of photos shows shows younger and older photos of "juvenile lifers," top row from left, William Washington, Jennifer M. Pruitt and John Sam Hall; middle row from left, Damion Lavoial Todd, Ahmad Rashad Williams and Evan Miller; bottom row from left, Giovanni Reid, Johnny Antoine Beck, and Bobby Hines. During the late 1980 and into the 1990s, many states enacted laws to punish juvenile criminals like adults and the U.S. became an international outlier, sentencing offenders under 18 to live out their lives in prison for homicide and, sometimes, rape, kidnapping, armed robbery. (Michigan Department of Corrections, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, Lawrence County Alabama Sheriff's Office, Alabama Department of Corrections via AP)
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Deputy Scott Cultice of the Clark County Sheriff's Office takes aim in a firearms training simulator at the county fair on Wednesday, July 26, 2017, in Springfield, Ohio. The sheriff rented the simulator to offer as a free exhibit, hoping it will help the public better understand how quickly officers must decide whether to use lethal force. (AP Photo/Kantele Franko)
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Mark Tulloch, of Kettering, Ohio, takes aim in a firearms training simulator at the Clark County Fair on Wednesday, July 26, 2017, in Springfield, Ohio. The county sheriff rented the simulator to offer as a free exhibit, hoping it will help the public better understand how quickly officers must decide whether to use lethal force. (AP Photo/Kantele Franko)
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ADVANCE FOR USE WEDNESDAY, AUG. 2, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-FILE - In this Oct. 26, 2004 file photo, Lee Boyd Malvo enters a courtroom in the Spotsylvania, Va., Circuit Court. Malvo plead guilty and was sentenced to two life sentences for the murder of Kenneth Bridges and shooting Caroline Seawell in 2002. In June 2017, public defender James Johnston argued before a Maryland judge that Malvo, one of the D.C. snipers who terrorized the Washington area for a month in 2002, deserved a new sentence. He was 17 and pleaded guilty to murder charges in Virginia and Maryland. He received life without parole in both states, but a Virginia judge recently ruled the term unconstitutional and ordered Malvo resentenced. (Mike Morones/The Free Lance-Star via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR USE WEDNESDAY, AUG. 2, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-This Friday, May 26, 2017 shows a hallway inside the Franklin Correctional Center in Bunn, N.C. A 2016 Supreme Court decision triggering new sentences for inmates serving mandatory life without parole for crimes committed as minors has had a far greater effect: The ruling is prompting lawyers to apply its fundamental logic _ that it's cruel and unusual to lock teens up for life _ to a larger population of prisoners: those whose sentences technically include a parole provision but who stand little chance of getting out. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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This undated identification photo released via the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Sex Offender Registry Board website shows Paul Shanley, released Friday, July 28, 2017, from the Old Colony Correctional Center in Bridgewater, Mass. Shanley, now 86, was a figure in the Boston Roman Catholic priest sex abuse scandal. He was released after completing a 12-year sentence for the rape of a boy in the 1980s. (Massachusetts Sex Offender Registry Board via AP)
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This Thursday, July, 27, 2017 provided by Plainfield Police Department shows Maurice Temple, 63, of Plainfield, N.H. Temple and his mother Pauline Chase were arrested as police say were involved in a murder-for-hire plot. State police say they have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder, solicitation to commit murder and attempt to commit murder. The two are scheduled for court appearances Friday, July 28. (Plainfield Police Department via AP)
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This Thursday, July, 27, 2017 provided by Plainfield Police Department shows Pauline Chase, 83, of Plainfield, N.H. Chase and her son, Maurice Temple were arrested as police say were involved in a murder-for-hire plot. State police say they have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder, solicitation to commit murder and attempt to commit murder. The two are scheduled for court appearances Friday, July 28. (Plainfield Police Department via AP)
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FILE - This undated file booking photo provided by the FBI shows Richard Gathercole of Roundup, Mont. Gathercole, dubbed the "AK-47 bandit," and suspected of bank robberies in five states, pleaded not guilty Monday, July 24, 2017, to unrelated charges in Nebraska. Gathercole entered the pleas in Dawson County District Court in Lexington, Neb., to two counts of possessing stolen firearms and one of theft or receiving stolen property, court records said. (FBI via AP, File)
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Former biotech CEO Martin Shkreli, right, leaves federal court with a member of his legal team Thursday, July 27, 2017, in New York. Shkreli's defense attorney, Benjamin Brafman, told the jury during closing arguments that his client annoyed some of his investors but ultimately rewarded them by starting a drug company that doubled or tripled their money. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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Former biotech CEO Martin Shkreli, second from right, leaves federal court with his attorney, Benjamin Brafman, center, Thursday, July 27, 2017, in New York. Brafman told the jury during closing arguments that his client annoyed some of his investors but ultimately rewarded them by starting a drug company that doubled or tripled their money. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
