Is Life without Parole for children Cruel and Unusual punishment?

Many have questioned if it’s fair revisiting a youth murder case years down the line and considering whether they should be given parole or time served after they have already been served with life without parole initially. Typically these children are given life without parole after felony murder cases and is it worth freeing these people years later? It has been argued and proven that these children to not have the capabilities and the mental capacity to understand the gravity of their actions. Even still, when it is proven that they do understand what they are doing, it is also argued that they are different people as adults than when they were children. Additionally, there are arguments that the prison systems in the United States lack the ability to properly rehabilitate convicts and these children will leave a broken system that will eventually make them worse people than when they first entered. Currently, states are slow to change their views of abolishing life without parole for children. In 2012 there was a Supreme Court ruling that eradicated mandatory life without parole sentencing for youth but the sentences are still being carried out. Despite this ruling, three states (Louisiana, Pennsylvania & Florida) are still maintaining tough sentences on youth such that some youth may not be allowed to get re-sentenced if they initially had a mandatory life sentences. For those children turned adults, clemency is their only option. Despite global consensus that children should be better protected than adults, cannot be held in facilities with adults and should be held to different standards of responsibility, there are many children treated and punished like adults and those law are changing too slowly.