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Joe Sullivan, who raped a woman when he was 13, and Terrance Graham, who committed armed burglary at 16. Outside the context of the death penalty, the Supreme Court has generally allowed states to decide for themselves what punishments fit what crimes.Terrance graham was locked up for life at the age of 17,without possibility of parole.In 2005, the court ruled that the Eighth Amendment’s ban on “cruel and unusual punishment” prohibited the execution of juvenile offenders.