U.S. fact of the day

by Tyler Cowen February 2, 2009 at 4:22 pm in

Or should I say Florida fact of the day?:

According to court papers and a report
from the Equal Justice Initiative, which now represents Mr. Sullivan,
there are only eight people in the world who are serving sentences of
life without parole for crimes they committed when they were 13. All
are in the United States.

And there are only two people in that group whose crimes did not involve a killing. Both are in Florida, and both are black.