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Juveniles: Death Penalty Worldwide Archived 2014-03-09 at the Wayback Machine Academic research database on the laws, practice, and statistics of capital punishment for every death penalty country in the world. Death Penalty Information Center – The Juvenile Death Penalty Prior to Roper v. Simmons; Capital Punishment
Coker v. Georgia, 433 U.S. 584 (1977) – The death penalty is unconstitutional for rape of an adult woman when the victim is not killed. Enmund v. Florida, 458 U.S. 782 (1982) – The death penalty is unconstitutional for a person who is a minor participant in a felony and does not kill, attempt to kill, or intend to kill. Tison v.
Prior to completely abolishing the juvenile death penalty in 2005, any juvenile aged 16 years or older could be sentenced to death in some states, the last of whom was Scott Hain, executed at the age of 32 in Oklahoma for the 2003 burning of two people to death during a robbery at age 17. [119]
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (October 2018) ... List of juveniles executed in the United States since 1976;
The Supreme Court made it easier Thursday to sentence minors convicted of murder to life in prison without the possibility of parole, a ruling that reflects a change in course driven by a more ...
In 2008, the Supreme Court barred states from allowing a death sentence for the rape of a child when the crime does not involve the victim's death, finding that applying the death penalty in such ...
Death penalty for murder; instigating a minor's or a mentally ill's suicide; treason; terrorism; a second conviction for drug trafficking; aircraft hijacking; aggravated robbery; espionage; kidnapping; being a party to a criminal conspiracy to commit a capital offence; attempted murder by those sentenced to life imprisonment if the attempt ...
The death penalty carries with it the inherent risk of executing an innocent person. Since 1972, nearly 200 people have been exonerated from death rows because of wrongful conviction, including ...