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Few juveniles have ever been executed for their crimes. Even when juveniles were sentenced to death, few executions were actually carried out. In the United States for example, youths under the age of 18 were executed at a rate of 20–27 per decade, or about 1.6–2.3% of all executions from 1880s to the 1920s.
The greatest effects were in Texas, where 29 juvenile offenders were awaiting execution, and in Alabama, where 13 on death row had been sentenced as juveniles. [37] The decision overturned the laws of 19 states that permitted 16 and 17 year olds to be executed. [27]
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.
"I want to hate these muggers and murderers. They should be forced to suffer and, when they kill, they should be executed for their crimes. They must serve as examples so that others will think long and hard before committing a crime or an act of violence." [223] [222] The youths ranged from the ages of 14–16 years when the ad was released.
Wood, known as the "Desert Killer," is scheduled to be executed Thursday, March 13, at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Huntsville Unit prison, court documents state. The execution will ...
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Ted Bundy was executed via electric chair on January 24, 1989. The infamous serial killer, who murdered more than 30 women, was sentenced to capital punishment in Florida State Prison.
In May 1993, it was confirmed that both Smith and Taylor would be tried as adults, [16] after a judge found that the juveniles could not be rehabilitated within the juvenile system. [17] [18] In response to the murders, many family members and friends of the victims and killers alike mourned for the deaths of the victims.