1. A person commits the crime of murder in the first degree if he knowingly causes the death of another person after deliberation upon the matter. 2. Murder in the first degree is a class A felony, and the punishment shall be either death or imprisonment for life without eligibility for probation or parole, or release except by act of the governor; except that, if a person has not reached his sixteenth birthday at the time of the commission of the crime, the punishment shall be imprisonment for life without eligibility for probation or parole, or release except by act of the governor. § 565.020, RSMo Cum.Supp.1992. At the time of trial in 2011, Williams was not eligible for the death penalty due to his age, see Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551, 125 S.Ct. 1183, 161 L.Ed.2d 1 (2005) (<HOLDING>). Therefore, the only other punishment
holding that the death penalty was categorically prohibited for juvenile offenders recognizing that virtually all of the studies show  that relatively few juvenile sex offenders are charged with a subsequent sex crime and sexual recidivism of juvenile sexual offenders posttreatment was very rare holding that the death penalty is unconstitutional as applied to juvenile defendants holding that leaning towards the death penalty is not the same as an automatic vote for the death penalty holding that defendant may be subject to death penalty on resentencing