Kids Behind Bars: Life or Parole

Shelton was 17 when he was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murder of Thomas Maynard. Now 48, he has been granted a resentencing hearing.

Dana Barker was only 17 when she killed her former stepmother Brenda in 1994. Back then, the court failed to consider the role of her father Joe in the crime.

16-year-old William Najar shot and killed Michael Decker, who was camping in the Phoenix desert. Now 38, Najar is facing an upcoming resentencing hearing.

What drives a teenage boy to kill his own father? Justin Long was only 15 years old when he violently killed his adoptive father, Hoyt Long.

Malcolm Thrower was 17 when he stabbed and killed Marilyn Russell, a neighborhood woman who had offered to help the homeless teen.

Richard Kinder was 17 when he and a friend committed a robbery that ended in a young woman's death, and the serious injury of her boyfriend.

This special offers an in-depth, side by side examination of two explosive cases involving juveniles initially sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.

Miguel Gaitan is serving a life without parole sentence for the brutal murders of a family of four, committed when he was just 14.

This episode will chronicle the "DC Sniper" murders, and the battle over sentencing one of the most notorious juvenile murderers in American history.