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This article, “A Time To Speak: A Lifer’s Assessment of the Sentence of Death by Imprisonment” appeared in the 2025 Special Edition of The Writer’s Block under the longer title, “A Time To Speak: A Lifer’s Assessment of the Sentence of Death by Imprisonment and the Application of Roper v. Simmons and Miller v. Alabama.” It is a four part discussion of the nature and continued viability of the sentence of life without parole particularly the need to end the imposition of that sentence upon persons between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one, i.e., emerging adults. This shorter piece extends the author's work by noting the constitutional dilemmas that arise from Missouri's law prohibiting those who are under twenty-one from serving on a jury.
A link to the 2025 Special Edition of The Writer’s Block “A Time To Speak: A Lifer’s Assessment of the Sentence of Death by Imprisonment and the Application of Roper v. Simmons and Miller v. Alabama.”
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Publication Date
Spring 2026
Document Type
Article
Keywords
Jury Service, Emerging Adults, Roper v. Simmons, Miller v. Alabama, Unconstitutional Exclusion
Disciplines
Civil Rights and Discrimination | Constitutional Law | Courts | Criminal Procedure | Law
Recommended Citation
Bell, Kenneth, "FIT TO BE TRIED BY JURY, BUT NOT TO BE A JUROR: THE DILEMMA FACED BY “ADULTS” UNDER AGE 21" (2026). SLU Law Journal Online. 140.
https://scholarship.law.slu.edu/lawjournalonline/140
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