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Charged at 13, still awaiting trial at 16: ‘He is mentally incapable of understanding what is going on,’ sister says

Born into a household rife with crack cocaine, Quindaris Burress, the youngest of four siblings, was left in an environment no child should ever know, his sister, Alexis Hill, says.

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Supreme Court says life without parole should be rare for juveniles. It’s far from rare in Mississippi.

Despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that life without parole should be “rare” for juveniles, Mississippi continues to sentence two-thirds of these teens to die in prison.