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The death penalty is forbidden in all states for those under the age of 18 at the time of their crime following the Supreme Court's ruling in Roper v. Simmons(2005)
The death penalty for juvenile offenders appears to have been abandoned by nations everywhere in large part due to the express provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and of several other international treaties and agreements. Since 1990, juvenile offenders are known to have been executed in only seven countries: China, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran, Pakistan, Yemen, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, and the United States.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 6y agoNot in the USA.
The US Supreme Court ruled in Roper v. Simmons, (2005) that it is unconstitutional to execute an offender for crimes committed while under the age of 18.
This overturned two relatively recent rulings in Thompson v. Oklahoma, 487 US 815 (1988) and Stanford v. Kentucky, 492 US 361 (1989) that declared executing someone for capital crimes committed while under the age of 16 was a violation of the Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, but that executing someone who was at least 16 at the time the crime was committed was constitutional.
The decision in Roper v. Simmons, (2005), overturned death penalty laws in 25 states.
The last known execution of a juvenile in the US was 17-year-old Leonard Shockley, who was put to death in 1959.
The last person to be executed for a crime committed as a juvenile was Scott Allen Hain, in 2003.
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∙ 14y agoNo. The reason you can not is because the United States Supreme Court made it illegal. A few years ago you could have gotten it.
The US Supreme Court ruled in Roper v. Simmons, 543 US 551 (2005) that it is unconstitutional to execute an offender for crimes committed while under the age of 18.
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∙ 7y agoYes, sixteen years olds be tried as adults depending upon what they have done to warrant it.
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