Lionel Tate

Lionel Tate

Lionel Alexander Tate (born January 30, 1987) is the youngest American citizen ever sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole. In January 2001, when Tate was 14, he was convicted of first-degree murder for the 1999 battering death of 6-year-old Tiffany Eunick in Broward County, Florida.

Read more about Lionel Tate:  The Murder and Conviction, The Sentence and The Controversy, Felony Murder Controversy, Original Sentence Overturned, Probation Violation, Armed Robbery Arrest and Subsequent Plea Bargain

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    The singular passion
    Abides its object and consumes desire
    In the circling shadow of its appetite.
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)