15 to Life: Kenneth's Story
| 15 to Life: Kenneth's Story | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Nadine Pequeneza |
| Written by | Nadine Pequeneza |
| Produced by | Nadine Pequeneza |
| Starring | Kenneth Young |
| Cinematography | Stefan Randstrom |
| Edited by | Ricardo Acosta |
| Music by | Alex Khaskin |
Production company | Hitplay Productions |
| Distributed by | Outcast Films Farrago Media |
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Running time | 83 minutes |
| Countries | Canada United States |
| Language | English |
15 to Life: Kenneth's Story is a Canadian-American documentary film, directed by Nadine Pequeneza and released in 2014.
The film centres on 26-year-old Kenneth Young, a Florida man who has been serving four consecutive sentences of life in prison since 2001, for participating in three armed robberies and one attempted armed robbery, over a 30-day period, as a 14-year-old in the summer of 2000. The 24-year-old he was led by during the robberies received a single life sentence. The minimum guidelines in Florida for these non-lethal crimes was just under four-and-a-half years.
In 2010, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Graham v. Florida that it is unconstitutional to sentence children to life imprisonment if they had not committed murder, paraphrased throughout the film as "children are different".