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  2. Capital punishment for juveniles in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The death penalty for juveniles in the United States was first applied in 1642. Before the 1972 Furman v. Georgia ruling that instituted a death penalty moratorium nationwide, there were approximately 342 executions of juveniles in the United States.

  3. Roper v. Simmons - Wikipedia

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    The Court's "independent judgement" concluding that the death penalty was an unconstitutionally disproportionate punishment for juveniles as a class relied on psychological and sociological studies to establish the diminished culpability of juveniles. [26]

  4. List of United States Supreme Court opinions involving ...

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    Sumner v. Shuman, 483 U.S. 66 (1987) – Mandatory death penalty for a prison inmate who is convicted of murder while serving a life sentence without possibility of parole is unconstitutional. Kennedy v. Louisiana, 554 U.S. 407 (2008) – The death penalty is unconstitutional for child rape and other non-homicidal crimes against the person.

  5. High court moves away from leniency for minors who murder - AOL

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    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 ...

  6. Capital punishment in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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. [112]

  7. Tennessee bill to allow death penalty for child rape in ... - AOL

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    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 ...

  8. List of punishments for murder in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 2005, the United States Supreme Court held that offenders under the age of 18 at the time of the murder were exempt from the death penalty under Roper v. Simmons. In 2012, the United States Supreme Court held in Miller v. Alabama that mandatory sentences of life without the possibility of parole are unconstitutional for juvenile offenders ...

  9. Tennessee governor OKs bill allowing death penalty for child ...

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    Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has approved legislation allowing the death penalty in child rape convictions, a change the Republican-controlled Statehouse championed amid concerns that the U.S. Supreme ...