For Henry Montgomery, a Catch-22
His “meaningful opportunity for release” came with impossible conditions.
In 1963, when Henry Montgomery was 17 years old, he killed a sheriff’s deputy in East Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Montgomery was sentenced to life without parole for his crime. Now 71 years old, he has been incarcerated for 54 years. Montgomery is also the named plaintiff in a that applied retroactively the Court’s 2012 precedent banning mandatory life
