Miller v. Alabama (2012) Evan Miller said that not being handed a Parole was violating the eighth amendment which is punishment will be fair, and not cruel. Evan Miller was a 14 year old teenager. On July 2003, Even Miller accompanied with his friend, killed a boy named Cole Cannon by hitting him multiple times with a baseball bat and burning his trailer while he was inside. Miller was taken from the Lawrence Country Juvenile Court to Lawrence County Circuit Court to be tested as an adult for first degree murder. While in the trail, the jury returned the verdict as guilty. They sent him to mandatory term of life imprisonment without a parole. Therefore, the government did not give him a parole, which violates the eighth amendment which would
