Imprisoning a Child for Life for a non-homicide crime?

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear Oral Agruments about the consititutionality of imprisoning juveniles for life for non-homicide crimes. An excellent editoral by the N.Y. Times questions this of U.S. Courts' practice of sentencing juveniles to life for crimes that DO NOT include murder, i.e., taking someone's life. A practice that almost all civilized nations have abandoned but yet United States has NOT. This article is a must read! What do you think?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/opinion/09mon1.html?_r=1&th&emc=th