body__paragraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_247DDDF0-41BF-CDF3-B553-B182ADB5F976" style="box-sizing:border-box; color:#262626; font-family:CNN,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,Utkal,sans-serif; font-size:1.2rem; font-weight:300; line-height:1.66667; margin-bottom:15px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; margin-top:0px; text-align:justify"WASHINGTON — Joe Ligon, believed to be the oldest and longest-serving juvenile lifer in the United States, has been released from a Pennsylvania prison after spending nearly seven decades behind bars. div class="zn-body__paragraph" data-paragraph-id="paragraph_B959072A-8AF6-8945-A658-B182ADBA3D84" style="background-color:#fefefe; box-sizing:border-box; color:#262626; font-family:CNN,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,Utkal,sans-serif; font-size:1.2rem; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:300; letter-spacing:normal; line-height:1.66667; margin-bottom:15px; margin-right:0px; text-align:justify; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; word-spacing:0px"Ligon was incarcerated in February 1953 at the age of 15, given a mandatory life sentence after pleading guilty to charges stemming from a robbery and stabbing spree in Philadelphia with four other teenage boys. The crime left six people wounded and two people — identified by the Philadelphia Inquirer as Charles Pitts and Jackson Hamm — dead.