This morning we mentioned how leftist activists (like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), HumanRights Watch (HRW), Amnesty International (AI), Equal Justice Initiative, and NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund) are spreading false information as part of their campaign to ban life without parole sentences for violent juvenile offenders. One particularly jarring misrepresentation of fact came from an Equal Justice Institute report that recounted: “At 14, Ashley tried to escape the violence and abuse by running away with an older boyfriend who shot and killed her grandfather and aunt. Her grandmother and sister who were injured during the offense, want Ashley to come home.” In the video below, Heritage legal scholar Cully Stimson reads from the trial judge’s findings of fact in the case. Be warned, the truth of Jones’s case involves offensive language and graphic descriptions of violence:

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