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Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976 [12] when the Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty did not violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, 22 people have been executed for crimes committed while they were under the age of 18. All of the 22 executed individuals were males, and all were ...
Robert Leslie Roberson III (born November 10, 1966) is an American man convicted and on death row for the murder of his two-year-old daughter in 2002. Roberson was accused of shaking his daughter and causing her death, and was tried and convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in 2003.
Robin Waddell, 60, was killed in 2021 when police say a man fleeing from police kidnapped and shot her. Jerry Elders was convicted of capital murder and could face the death penalty.
The office of Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry released a summary of the state's updated execution protocol on Monday alongside a pledge to move forward with the death penalty for the first time since 2010.
Congress passed a law 25 years ago to speed up adoptions of foster children. It destroyed hundreds of thousands of families via termination of parental rights.
John Arthur Spenkelink (March 29, 1949 – May 25, 1979) was an American convicted murderer. He was executed in 1979, the first convicted criminal to be executed in Florida after capital punishment was reinstated in 1976, and the second (after Gary Gilmore) in the United States.
Timothy Jones, 37, was handed the death penalty by a jury in South Carolina after being convicted of the murders of his five young children.
The penalty phase was retried starting on February 29, 1988, and Raley was sentenced to death on May 17. [ 5 ] [ 10 ] During the penalty phase retrial, the prosecution presented criminal incidents from Raley's juvenile record, which included lewd acts with children that occurred when he was a teenager.