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States Where Juveniles Serve Life Terms
POSTED: 4:52 am EST November 9,
2009
UPDATED: 5:42 am EST November 9,
2009
Distribution, by state, of juvenile offenders sentenced to life in prison without parole, and the number of juvenile offenders serving such sentences for crimes in which no one was killed:
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Source: Human Rights Watch; Paolo G. Annino, David W. Rasmussen and Chelsea Boehme Rice from Florida State University.
| State | Life | Life-nonfatal | crimes |
| Ala. | 62 | 0 | |
| Ariz. | 32 | 0 | |
| Ark. | 73 | 0 | |
| Calif. | 250 | 4 | |
| Colo. | 48 | 0 | |
| Conn. | 9 | 0 | |
| Del. | 7 | 1 | |
| Fla. | 266 | 77 | |
| Ga. | 8 | 0 | |
| Hawaii | 4 | 0 | |
| Idaho | 4 | 0 | |
| Ill. | 103 | 0 | |
| Ind. | 2 | 0 | |
| Iowa | 44 | 6 | |
| Ky. | 5 | 0 | |
| La. | 335 | 17 | |
| Md. | 13 | 0 | |
| Mass. | 57 | 0 | |
| Mich. | 346 | 0 | |
| Minn. | 2 | 0 | |
| Miss. | 24 | 2 | |
| Mo. | 116 | 0 | |
| Mont. | 1 | 0 | |
| Neb. | 24 | 1 | |
| Nev. | 16 | 0 | |
| N.H. | 3 | 0 | |
| N.C. | 44 | 0 | |
| N.D. | 1 | 0 | |
| Ohio | 2 | 0 | |
| Okla. | 48 | 0 | |
| Pa. | 444 | 0 | |
| R.I. | 2 | 0 | |
| S.C. | 26 | 1 | |
| S.D. | 9 | 0 | |
| Tenn. | 4 | 0 | |
| Texas | 4 | 0 | |
| Utah | 1 | 0 | |
| Va. | 48 | 0 | |
| Wash. | 28 | 0 | |
| Wis. | 16 | 0 | |
| Wyo. | 6 | 0 | |
| Federal Prisons | 37 | 0 |
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