The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 this morning against Brett Jones, a man convicted of committing murder when he was 15, finding his sentence of life imprisonment without parole does not violate the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishments. The decision came April 22 in Jones v. Mississippi, court file 18-1259. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the majority opinion, in which Chief Justice John Roberts, as well as Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Amy Coney Barrett joined. Justice Clarence Thomas filed a separate opinion concurring in the judgment. Justice Sonia Sotomayor filed a dissenting opinion, in which Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan joined. Since Jones committed his crime in 2004, the case law on juveniles receiving life sentences without parole has evolved. In 2005, the Supreme Court ruled in Roper v. Simmons that executing individuals who were under 18 when they committed their crimes violated the Eighth Amendment. …