Joseph Ligon is presently 79 years old. He has remained the oldest serving juvenile lifer in the United States of America. Joseph was convicted in the year 1953, at the age of 16 years old.

He was convicted after engaging in gang violence and robbery that led to the killing of two men. He has served 64 years in prison. His co-defendants, some of which have died and others received commutations.

Joseph Ligon would like receive freedom as he claimed that he was not guilty of the offence he was being accused of. Although, he was recently offered 'parole' which means freedom in order to remain under the control of the Pennsylvania Department of Correction but he refused.

Joseph Ligon is 79 years old and has been serving a prison sentence for 63 years. However, he still claims he is innocent and never committed the crime he was accused of. He has recently been offered parole but turned it down.

He has family in New Jersey with whom he’d like to reunite, and, as he argues, he’s served long enough.

According to the Supreme Court ruling in 2016, it's made know that mandatory life sentences for juveniles are unconstitutional therefore called for resentencing.

As at when Joseph Ligon was convicted and sentenced, four other teens were sentenced at the same time. But Ligon maintained in his statement that he stabbed only one person who he claimed later survived.

It seems he was not satisfied with the parole offer, he wanted a total freedom so that he can go and join his family.

He remained firm in his words that he was guilty of the offence he was accused of. In March 2019, a Pennsylvania court rejected just this argument from Ligon: that the Pennsylvania law violates the Supreme Court's ban on mandatory life sentences for minors.

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God no go shame us

The guy come fine for old age. get pink lips join. Jail good o

Life sha. Someone happened to spend his entire life in jail while others use theirs becoming world known billionaires, driving private jets around the world. It's well.

shawnfamous:
The guy come fine for old age. get pink lips join. Jail good o

Correction.

OBODO OYINBO JAIL good o.

If na 9ja, the kind kraw kraw wey go full the prisoner body go dey commot maggot if u burst am.

This life is indeed a mystery.
So this one just come life come serve jail term?
Sincerely I am moved, they just wasted his whole life, they could have at least free him since he is a minor.
I no even Sabi wetin I Wan talk self.
My heart weeps for him sha

G damn. The system is shitty

shawnfamous:
The guy come fine for old age. get pink lips join. Jail good o

I swear the jail fit am...f guy fresh....this one go don rape people tire for jail

But anyway I feel pity for him...to b bad guy no good....see as him life take end b4 e even start

shawnfamous:
The guy come fine for old age. get pink lips join. Jail good o

u're a bastard

miracood:
u're a bastard

hahahahaha u too

Ive not see the picture before suspecting he must be a BLACK man.....#All live matters

This can never happened in America or developed world.....

world's oldest fagg0T

southniyikaye:
This life is indeed a mystery.
So this one just come life come serve jail term?
Sincerely I am moved, they just wasted his whole life, they could have at least free him since he is a minor.
I no even Sabi wetin I Wan talk self.
My heart weeps for him sha

How about the two people he killed

BigBabyJesus:


How about the two people he killed

he said he didn't kill anyone
Said the person he stabbed survived..
They should have just allow him prove his innocence with a lawyer. Maybe then, black lives doesn't matter

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southniyikaye:
he said he didn't kill anyone
Said the person he stabbed survived..
They should have just allow him prove his innocence with a lawyer. Maybe then, black lives doesn't matter

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Dis 1 don old for jail

acient of jail

This life sha. He's basically spent his only lifetime in a prison cell. Considering his age at the time of his crime, and MAYBE good prison conduct they should have let him off 3 decades ago.

HE may be a prisoner here on earth and be a free man in the hereafter if he receives Chris

It's hurts but the honest truth is that he just wasted his life.

Even if he is released he cannot fit.

My people follow follow good ooo.

Omoluabi16:
This life sha. He's basically spent his only lifetime in a prison cell. Considering his age at the time of his crime, and MAYBE good prison conduct they should have let him off 3 decades ago.

Prison life is the only life he knows so I doubt he will want to go back to a society that's completely alien to him.

Ishilove:

Prison life is the only life he knows so I doubt he will want to go back to a society that's completely alien to him.

Honestly. He certainly can't function in today's world. Life could be very unfair.

.....the prison life is the only life i know,(sad)

Reminds me of a scene from my favourite movie "Shawshank Redemption" where Brooks who was the longest serving prisoner at Shawshank was finally paroled after 50 years at the age of 73.

The man couldn't even understand the real world, let alone, function normally. Prison life was all he knew, at least there he was somebody. He later hung himself.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kotNxb2YApk

Wow. Getting that man admitted into a society that's changed will be difficult.

His life has bn taken away from him.

shugabasbn:
This can never happened in America or developed world.....

human being, so what country is pennsylvania in, i guess kenya. Fishhead

shugabasbn:
This can never happened in America or developed world.....

You sure you read the story properly?

just reading the topic, I knew he's black