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Sawirro: Maxbuus xirnaa 63 sano oo diiday in laga siidaayo Xabsiga

By Asad Cabdullahi Mataan
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Muqdisho (Caasimada Online)-Warbaahinta caalamka ayaa aad u hadal heysa Maxbuus xirnaa 63-sano oo markii laga siidaayay Xabsiga diiday inuu baxo.

Joseph Ligon oo kasoo jeeda magaalada Philadelphia, gobolka Pennsylvania ee dalkaasi Mareykanka ayaa diiday in uu bannaanka uga boxo xabsiga waxa uuna ku andacoonaayay inuusan la qabsan karin meel xabsiga ka baxsan.

Joseph Ligon oo hadda jira 79 sano ayaa waxaa loo xiray fal ku aadan dil kaasi oo dhacay sanadii 1953, waxa uuna ka dhacay magaalada Philadelphia, isagoona waqtigaas uu jiray 15-sano.

Joseph Ligon, waxa uu sheegay inay ku filan tahay dhowrkii sano ee uu xirnaa.

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Ligon2015. Joseph Ligon has served 63 years in prison for two murders committed when he was 15 years old, making him the oldest and longest-serving juvenile lifer in the world. Like 300 others from Philadelphia, he's eligible for a new sentence following a January Supreme Court decision banning life without parole for juveniles. But, when he received the District Attorney's offer - a deal for 50 years to life in prison that would make him immediately eligible for parole - the white-haired, 79-year-old declined on principle. "His view is: He's been in long enough," Bradley Bridge of the Defender Association of Philadelphia, told the court Friday. "He doesn't want to be on probation or parole. He just wants to be released." Ligon was one of five youths charged in the stabbing deaths of Charles Pitts and Jackson Hamm in Point Breeze. He was also among seven defendants named in a petition Friday asking a three-judge panel to answer legal questions that could shake up the process of resentencing juvenile lifers in Philadelphia, which is home to more such inmates than anyplace else in the country. The defense team, including the Defender Association, the Juvenile Law Center, and private defense lawyers, proposed 15 questions, including: whether a maximum of life is unconstitutional in a juvenile case; whether it's illegal to base resentencing on a current state law that explicitly does not apply to cases older than 2012; and whether, because the juvenile lifers' first- and second-degree murder sentences were found unconstitutional, they must be resentenced as third-degree cases.

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