Notable reviews of extreme sentences in Pennsylvania

The tail end of this week brought a number of notable stories about notably extreme sentences (and a few releases therefrom) in Pennsylvania.  I will use headlines and links to cover a lot of ground involving a number of intersecting and overlapping stories:

“Report raises questions with second-degree murder sentencing in Pennsylvania“

“Pa.’s second-degree murder charge is outdated, unfair, Fetterman says“

“‘They don’t deserve to die in prison’: Gov. Wolf grants clemency to 13 lifers“

“The nation’s oldest juvenile lifer, Joe Ligon, left a Pa. prison after 68 years“

The first pair of stories relate to this notable new report by the Philadelphia Lawyers for Social Equity titled “Life Without Parole for Second-Degree Murder in Pennsylvania: An Objective Assessment of Sentencing.”