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Thompson v. Oklahoma. William Wayne Thompson v. State of Oklahoma. Defendant tried as an adult and convicted of murder of his brother-in-law, who had been abusing his ex-wife, who was Thompson's sister; was found guilty; and was sentenced to death. Appealed to Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma, decision affirmed, 1986 OK CR 130, 724 P.2d 780.
The youngest at the time of execution was Steve Edward Roach, who was 23 at the time of execution. In Thompson v. Oklahoma (1988), the Supreme Court first held unconstitutional imposition of the death penalty for crime committed aged 15 or younger. But in the 1989 case Stanford v.
Victims. Michael Houghton, 27. Laura Sanders, 22. Date. October 6, 1987. Date apprehended. October 9, 1987. Scott Allen Hain (June 2, 1970 – April 3, 2003) was the last person executed in the United States for crimes committed as a juvenile. Hain was executed by Oklahoma for a double murder–kidnapping he committed when he was 17 years old.
In 1987, Thompson v. Oklahoma, the Supreme Court threw away William Wayne Thompson's death sentence due to it being cruel and unusual punishment, as he was 15 years old at the time of the crime he committed; the judgment established that "evolving standards of decency" made it inappropriate to apply the death penalty for people under 16 years ...
The Supreme Court blocked the execution of an Oklahoma death row inmate in a case in which the state attorney general called the underlying conviction unsound.
Roper v. Simmons: 2005 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the execution of those under 18 (at the time of committing the capital crime) is unconstitutional. Thompson v. Oklahoma: 1988 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the execution of those who committed their crime when under the age of 16 is unconstitutional.
Thompson v. Oklahoma, 487 U.S. 815 (1988) – Capital punishment for crimes committed at 15 years of age or less is unconstitutional. Stanford v. Kentucky, 492 U.S. 361 (1989) – The death penalty for crimes committed at age 16 or 17 is constitutional. (Overruled in Roper v. Simmons) Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551 (2005) – The death penalty ...
The legal fight began. It ended in 1984 with the Supreme Court, with a 7-2 decision, delivering a debilitating blow to the NCAA, which had never before endured such a defeat. Suddenly, schools and ...