1. Does a juvenile life sentence, with parole eligibility after a lengthy term for years, in a state with no guarantee that the mitigating qualities of youth will ever be considered violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment?

2. Must a Court reviewing an Eighth Amendment challenge to a juvenile offender's adult prison sentence consider and assess the mitigating qualities of youth as a constitutional requirement?

3. Does a State violate equal protection of the law under the Fourteenth Amendment when it grants some juvenile offenders an opportunity to be resentenced but denies that same opportunity to other juvenile offenders who are within the same class?

Does a juvenile life sentence with parole eligibility after a lengthy term violate the Eighth Amendment?