OPINION
MURPHY, Circuit Judge.
A Tennessee jury convicted Howard Atkins of murdering his stepfather in 2000 when he was just 16 years old. A state court imposed a life sentence that (all now agree) renders Atkins eligible for release after at least 51 years' imprisonment. See Brown v. Jordan,
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