the powers which the state may exercise.” In re Gault, 387 U.S. 1, 20, 87 S.Ct. 1428, 18 L.Ed.2d 527 (1967). {¶ 56} The right to due process of law is not limited to adults facing a deprivation of liberty. Id. at 13. Rather, it is an essential and eternal promise of the Constitution to all Americans, including our youth. Although a child is too young to vote for their legislators and, in Ohio, their judges, those legislators and judges cannot ignore the constitutional protections safeguarding a child’s liberty. And even though good motives may have informed the development of the juvenile court systems throughout the United States, the Supreme Court has reminded us that “[t]he absence of procedural rules based upon constitutional principle has not always Ct. 1183, 161 L.Ed.2d 1 (2005) (<HOLDING>). . {¶ 59} The concurring justice’s eagerness
holding that execution of juveniles violates the eighth and fourteenth amendments holding that sentences imposing mandatory life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on individuals who committed their crimes when under the age of 18 violates the eighth amendment to the united states constitution holding that the eighth amendment to the united states constitution prohibits the execution of mentally retarded individuals holding that the execution of individuals who were under 18 years of age at the time they committed capital crimes violates the eighth and fourteenth amendments to the united states constitution holding the eighth and fourteenth amendments forbid imposition of the death penalty on offenders who were under the age of eighteen when their crimes were committed