| 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 |
Release date |
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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.[1]
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,[1] paraphrased throughout the film as "children are different".