21. Data Presented On Capital Punishment In The United States - US Department Of Sta 38 states with capital punishment. The death penalty for Crimes Committed byjuveniles. US laws on the execution of juveniles are consistent with US http://usinfo.state.gov/dhr/Archive/2004/Dec/02-1537.html

Advanced Search/Archive You Are In: USINFO Topics Human Rights Capital Punishment Data Presented on Capital Punishment in the United States Number of U.S. death sentences hit 30-year low in 2003, U.S. agencies report The following fact sheet on capital punishment in the United States was compiled from U.S. Department of Justice statistics and Department of State sources: U.S. Department of State International Information Programs December 1, 2004 FACT SHEET: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN THE UNITED STATES Context Americans tend to cast the debate over capital punishment in terms of its deterrent value or appropriateness as a sanction for certain serious crimes. Overseas, the use of the death penalty in the United States is frequently raised as a human rights issue especially when juveniles, the mentally retarded, or the mentally ill are involved. The latest statistics from the U.S. Department of Justice show a downward trend in death sentences nationwide. In 2003, the latest year for which statistics are available, the number of death sentences imposed hit a 30-year low. The number of prisoners under sentence of death at year-end 2003 also decreased for the third year in a row.

22. Capital Punishment In U.S. Hit 30-Year Low In 2003 - US Department Of State Revised US Supreme Court bans death penalty for juveniles. The following factsheet on capital punishment in the United States was compiled from US http://usinfo.state.gov/dhr/Archive/2005/Mar/01-985703.html

Advanced Search/Archive You Are In: USINFO Topics Human Rights Capital Punishment Capital Punishment in U.S. Hit 30-Year Low in 2003 Revised: U.S. Supreme Court bans death penalty for juveniles The following fact sheet on capital punishment in the United States was compiled from U.S. Department of Justice statistics and Department of State sources. This fact sheet was originally published on December 1, 2004; this update reflects a March 1, 2005, ruling issued by the U.S. Supreme Court banning the execution of those who were under the age of 18 at the time of their crime. Following is the fact sheet: U.S. Department of State International Information Programs March 1, 2005 FACT SHEET: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN THE UNITED STATES Context Americans tend to cast the debate over capital punishment in terms of its deterrent value or appropriateness as a sanction for certain serious crimes. Overseas, the use of the death penalty in the United States is frequently raised as a human rights issue especially when juveniles, the mentally retarded, or the mentally ill are involved. The latest statistics from the U.S. Department of Justice show a downward trend in death sentences nationwide. In 2003, the latest year for which statistics are available, the number of death sentences imposed hit a 30-year low.

23. BBC NEWS | World | Americas | US Court Bans Juvenile Executions capital punishment for juveniles had been allowed in 19 states. The US SupremeCourt has abolished the death penalty for those who commit murder when under http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4308881.stm

Home TV Radio Talk ... Newswatch LANGUAGES Espanol Brazil Caribbean More Last Updated: Tuesday, 1 March, 2005, 18:08 GMT E-mail this to a friend Printable version US court bans juvenile executions Capital punishment for juveniles had been allowed in 19 states The US Supreme Court has abolished the death penalty for those who commit murder when under the age of 18. The court was divided on the issue, but voted 5-4 that the death penalty for criminals aged 16 and 17 should be declared unconstitutional. The decision affects not only those convicted in future, but about 70 prisoners already on death row for offences committed before they were 18. Anti-capital punishment campaigners claimed the decision as a victory. "Now the US can proudly remove its name from the embarrassing list of human rights violators - that includes China, Iran, and Pakistan - that still execute juvenile offenders," said William Schulz, executive director of Amnesty International USA. 'No deterrent' The highest US court upheld an earlier ruling by the Missouri Supreme Court, which banned the execution of people convicted of crimes they committed before turning 18. The Missouri court said putting minors to death was a violation of the US constitution, which outlaws "cruel and unusual" punishment.

24. BBC NEWS | Americas | US Court Bans Juvenile Executions The US Supreme Court abolishes the death penalty for those who commit crimes when There are 19 states where capital punishment for juveniles is allowed. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4308881.stm

News Sport Weather World Service ... Newswatch LANGUAGES Espanol Brazil Caribbean More Last Updated: Tuesday, 1 March, 2005, 18:08 GMT E-mail this to a friend Printable version US court bans juvenile executions Capital punishment for juveniles had been allowed in 19 states The US Supreme Court has abolished the death penalty for those who commit murder when under the age of 18. The court was divided on the issue, but voted 5-4 that the death penalty for criminals aged 16 and 17 should be declared unconstitutional. The decision affects not only those convicted in future, but about 70 prisoners already on death row for offences committed before they were 18. Anti-capital punishment campaigners claimed the decision as a victory. "Now the US can proudly remove its name from the embarrassing list of human rights violators - that includes China, Iran, and Pakistan - that still execute juvenile offenders," said William Schulz, executive director of Amnesty International USA. 'No deterrent' The highest US court upheld an earlier ruling by the Missouri Supreme Court, which banned the execution of people convicted of crimes they committed before turning 18.

25. FOXNews.com - U.S. & World - Supreme Court Rules Death Penalty For Youths Uncons the reversal of its previous ruling on capital punishment for juveniles. The court struck down the death penalty for the mentally retarded in 2002. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,149080,00.html

OAS_AD('Top'); document.write(secTimeStamp); SEARCH writeFeature(0); writeFeature(1); writeFeature(2); RESPOND TO EDITOR E-MAIL STORY PRINTER FRIENDLY FOXFAN CENTRAL Supreme Court Rules Death Penalty for Youths Unconstitutional Wednesday, March 02, 2005 By Jane Roh PHOTOS writeScroll(openTab1,'1'); STORIES BACKGROUND writeScroll(openTab2,'2'); U.S. Supreme Court search ) on Tuesday ended the option of the death penalty for 16- and 17-year-olds, stating that persons of that age cannot "be classified among the worst offenders." The 5-4 decision in Roper v. Simmons search ) affects 19 states that still subject youths to capital punishment, along with 72 death-row inmates who committed their crimes as teenagers. In a somewhat surprising development, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, previously seen as the "swing" voter in the case, joined Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas in a dissent, while Justice Anthony Kennedy sided with the majority. "When a juvenile offender commits a heinous crime, the state can exact forfeiture of some of the most basic liberties, but the state cannot extinguish his life and his potential to attain a mature understanding of his own humanity," Kennedy wrote in the majority ruling. Kennedy, who in 1989 voted in favor of upholding the death penalty for 16- and 17-year-olds, cited the court's requirement that it consider "evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society" in the reversal of its previous ruling on capital punishment for juveniles.

26. LII: Law About...the Death Penalty The death penalty, or capital punishment, may be prescribed by Congress or any Execution of Mentally Ill juveniles the death penalty Legal Issues http://straylight.law.cornell.edu/topics/death_penalty.html

Law about... collection home tell me more donate death penalty: an overview The death penalty, or capital punishment, may be prescribed by Congress or any state legislature for murder and other capital crimes. The Supreme Court has ruled that the death penalty is not a per se violation of the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Furthermore, the Sixth Amendment does not require a jury trial on the sentencing issue of life or death. Not all states provide for the death penalty. In the landmark case, Coker v. Georgia, 433 U.S. 584 (1977) , the Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty is a grossly disproportionate punishment for the crime of rape of an adult woman. The Court came to this conclusion by considering objective indicia of the nation's attitude toward the death penalty in rape cases. At the time, only a few states allowed for executions of convicted rapists. More recently, in Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002) , the Supreme Court used the same line of reasoning to rule that executions of mentally retarded criminals are "cruel and unusual punishments" which are prohibited by the Eighth Amendment In Roper v. Simmons

27. Justices Abolish Death Penalty For Juveniles - Crime & Punishment - MSNBC.com The US Supreme Court on Tuesday abolished the death penalty for killers who were already bars the execution of juveniles for federal capital crimes. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7051296/

Skip navigation U.S. News Hurricane Katrina The Changing Court ... Most Popular NBC NEWS MSNBC TV Today Show Nightly News Meet the Press ... U.S. News Justices abolish death penalty for juveniles 5-4 ruling overturns 72 sentences, affects Malvo in sniper killings Getty Images file Convicted killer Lee Boyd Malvo, seen during a 2003 court appearance, won't be retried in Virginia, a prosecutor said after Tuesday's Supreme Court ruling on juveniles and death row. FREE VIDEO Juvenile executions March 1: 72 murderers who were under 18 when they committed their crimes are no longer on death row. NBC's Pete Williams reports on a major Supreme Court decision. Nightly News WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the Constitution forbids the execution of killers who were under 18 when they committed their crimes, ending a practice used in 19 states. The 5-4 decision throws out the death sentences of 72 juvenile murderers and bars states from seeking to execute minors for future crimes. The ruling had an immediate effect on the nation's most notorious teen killer, sniper Lee Boyd Malvo. Prosecutors in Virginia's Prince William County had waited for the ruling to decide on bringing Malvo to trial for one of the 10 killings in an October 2002 killing spree by Malvo and accomplice John Allen Muhammad.

28. Supreme Court Strikes Down Death Penalty For Juveniles - AP (and More) 1mar2005 weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty, The Supreme Court has permitted states to impose capital punishment since 1976 http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2005/Death-Penalty-Juveniles1mar05.htm

Supreme Court Strikes Down Death Penalty for Juveniles AP (and more) 1mar2005 Are Prisons Obsolete? Roper, Superintendent, Potosi Correctional Center v. Simmons State-by-State Breakdown The state breakdown of the 72 people on death rows who were juveniles when they committed their crimes, according to the Death Penalty Information Center: • Texas: 29 • Alabama: 14 • Mississippi: 5 • Arizona, Louisiana, North Carolina: 4 each • Florida, South Carolina: 3 each • Georgia, Pennsylvania: 2 each • Nevada, Virginia: 1 • Arkansas, Delaware, Idaho, Kentucky, New Hampshire, Oklahoma and Utah allow the execution of juveniles but do not have any on their death rows. Major Supreme Court rulings on the death penalty: 1972, Furman v. Georgia. The court rules the death penalty does not violate the Constitution, but the manner of its application in many states does. The court noted capital punishment was likely to be imposed in a discriminatory way and that blacks were far more likely to be executed than whites. The decision essentially ends the practice of executions. 1976, Gregg vs. Georgia. A Georgia death penalty statute is held constitutional, a ruling that sets the stage for resumption of executions.

29. Coordinating Council On Juvenile Justice And Delinquency Prevention - November 2 This Bulletin examines the history of capital punishment and Supreme Courtdecisions related to its use juveniles and the death penalty. Lynn Cothern http://www.ncjrs.org/html/ojjdp/coordcouncil/

John J. Wilson, Acting Administrator November 2000 From the Administrator The appropriateness of the death penalty for juveniles is the subject of intense debate despite Supreme Court decisions upholding its use. Although nearly half the States allow those who commit capital crimes as 16- and 17-year-olds to be sentenced to death, some question whether this is compatible with the principles on which our juvenile justice system was established. This Bulletin examines the history of capital punishment and Supreme Court decisions related to its use with juveniles. It also includes profiles of those sentenced to death for crimes committed as juveniles and notes the international movement toward abolishing this sanction. I hope that this Bulletin enhances our understanding of the issues involved in applying the death penalty to juveniles so that we may focus our energy and resources on effective and humane responses to juvenile crime and violence. John J. Wilson Acting Administrator Juveniles and the Death Penalty Lynn Cothern Introduction History of the Death Penalty History of the Juvenile Death Penalty ... Coordinating Council Members Acknowledgments Lynn Cothern, Ph.D., is Senior Writer/Editor for the Juvenile Justice Resource Center (JJRC) in Rockville, MD. Lucy Hudson, Project Manager for JJRC, and Ellen McLaughlin, Writer/Editor for the Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse (JJC) in Rockville, MD, revised and updated the Bulletin using source material provided by the author. Nancy Walsh, Senior Writer/Editor for JJC, wrote the sidebar on the

30. WebQuest Any juveniles given capital punishment? The number of women given given capital Christianity and the death penalty. This pro capital punishment document http://coe.west.asu.edu/students/ahudson/WebQuest.html

WEBQUEST CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IS IT EVER JUSTIFIED? O ur society has become increasingly violent. Gone are the days where you can leave your doors open and your cars unlocked. Family values and morals are declining. Drug abuse, child abuse, domestic violence, and gangs are on the rise. Guns are almost as easy to get as candy. Children are not safe even at school. Society seems obsessed with sex and violence is glorified in music and movies. It seems some members of society place little value on human life. With the crime rate increasing, crimes becoming more heinous , and society's killers are becoming younger and younger, the United states which once outlawed capital punishment has brought it back. Some argue that it is justified. What do you say? The Task Using the suggested resources, you will have the opportunity to gain a better understanding of the methods used in capital punishment types of crimes committed by people given the death penalty, and arguments for and against capital punishment. Visit the suggested Internet sites and read accounts of people and events. Complete the following assignments: Write a 2-3 page letter to the governor defending your position on capital punishment.

31. Outlawing The Juvenile Death Penalty of the availability of the juvenile death penalty among the states. Further,those states that allowed capital punishment for juveniles very rarely used http://www.apa.org/monitor/jun05/jn.html

Volume 36, No. 6 June 2005 Table of Contents Ultimately the number and rate of states adopting or rejecting the death penalty under a variety of specific conditions forms the most important indicator of national consensus. Outlawing the juvenile death penalty By focusing death penalty research on state laws, psychologists can inform the capital punishment debate. BY RICHARD L. WIENER, PHD Law and Psychology Program University of Nebraska at Lincoln Print version: page 84 Two recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings regarding capital punishment point to the importance of psychologists focusing their research in this area on state law using community samples. The Supreme Court made the death penalty unavailable for two types of convicted first-degree murderers because execution of these defendants violated the cruel and unusual punishment clause of the Eighth Amendment. Mentally ill defendants In Atkins v. Virginia (536 U.S. 304 [2002]), the Court applied the "evolving standards of decency" rule from Trope v. Dulles

32. Death Penalty Bush and Gore, juveniles, and death penalty Humor; Also includes 90+ prodeathpenalty links death penalty; capital punishment; Ethics; punishment http://talkjustice.com/links.asp?453053911

33. Capital Punishment - Enpsychlopedia capital punishment. (Redirected from death penalty). Missing image Only sixcountries practice the death penalty for juveniles, that is criminals aged http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/Death_penalty

home resource directory disorders quizzes ... support forums Advertisement ( Capital punishment (Redirected from Death penalty Missing image Death_Penalty_World_Map.png Death Penalty World Map Color Key: Blue : Abolished for all crimes Green : Abolished for crimes not committed in exceptional circumstances (such as crimes committed in time of war) Orange : Abolitionist in Practice Red : Legal Form of Punishment Capital punishment , also referred to as the death penalty , is the judicially ordered execution of a prisoner as a punishment for a serious crime , often called a capital offense or a capital crime . Some jurisdictions that practice capital punishment restrict its use to a small number of criminal offences, principally treason and murder . Prisoners who have been sentenced to death are usually kept segregated from other prisoners in a special part of the prison pending their execution. In some places this segregated area is known as " Death Row robbery or theft . It has also been frequently used by the military for crimes including looting insubordination , and mutiny The term "capital" derives from the Latin caput , meaning "head". Thus, capital punishment is the penalty for a crime so severe that it deserves

34. Law: Capital Punishment Term Paper Help to Order capital punishment. Argues against use of the death penalty as History of capital punishment for juveniles in US Constitutional issues Court http://www.research-assistance.com/hazel-doc/ra-topics/law_capital_punishment.ht

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35. Ending The Death Penalty For Juveniles Is Not Enough - By Ivan Eland Yet why stop at ending the death penalty only for juveniles? Then despitethe softening of public support for capital punishment, why do many Americans http://www.antiwar.com/eland/?articleid=5107

36. Amnesty International USA: Death Penalty Pakistan and China have abolished the juvenile death penalty, found that 69percent of Americans oppose capital punishment for juvenile offenders. http://www.amnestyusa.org/abolish/juveniles.html

@import "/c/ai.css"; Amnesty International USA learn latest news countries ... students search Juveniles Deterrence Mental Retardation Mental Illness Federal Death Penalty ... Cost The Death Penalty Gives Up On Juvenile Offenders An almost universal prohibition exists on the execution of persons who were under the age of 18 at the time of the crime. Since 2000, only five countries in the world are known to have executed juvenile offenders: China, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Iran, Pakistan, and the United States. Pakistan and China have abolished the juvenile death penalty, but there have been problems in nationwide compliance with the law. Stop Child Executions! As a step towards the total abolition of the death penalty around the world, Amnesty International has launched an international campaign calling for an end to the use of the death penalty against child offenders. In August 2000, the UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights The United States and Somalia are the only countries in the world that have not ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child Twenty-one* U.S. states

37. CNN.com - High Court: Juvenile Death Penalty Unconstitutional - Mar 1, 2005 death penalty for juveniles struck down. premium content PLAY VIDEO does notbelieve the ruling is a death knell for capital punishment. http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/01/scotus.death.penalty/

International Edition MEMBER SERVICES The Web CNN.com Home Page World U.S. Weather ... Autos SERVICES Video E-mail Newsletters Your E-mail Alerts RSS ... Contact Us SEARCH Web CNN.com High court: Juvenile death penalty unconstitutional Slim majority cites 'evolving standards' in American society Bill Mears CNN Washington Bureau var clickExpire = "-1"; VIDEO Death penalty for juveniles struck down PLAY VIDEO RELATED Interactive: Death penalty in the United States Opinion and dissent (FindLaw, PDF) U.S. Supreme Court Criminal Justice Reform Education Fund YOUR E-MAIL ALERTS Supreme Court Capital Punishment Crime, Law and Justice or Create your own Manage alerts What is this? WASHINGTON (CNN) In a ruling that marked a change in "national standards," a divided Supreme Court Tuesday ruled that the execution of juvenile killers is unconstitutional. The 5-4 decision tosses out the death sentence of a Missouri man who was 17-years-old when he murdered a St. Louis area woman in 1993. Writing for the court, Justice Anthony Kennedy found the punishment was unconstitutionally cruel under the Eighth Amendment. "When a juvenile commits a heinous crime, the State can exact forfeiture of some of the most basic liberties, but the State cannot extinguish his life and his potential to attain a mature understanding of his own humanity."

38. NCSC: Knowledge And Information Services Criminal Justice capital punishment/The death penalty capital punishmentfor juveniles and the mentally retarded, competency of counsel in capital http://www.ncsconline.org/WCDS/Topics/topic1.asp?search_value=Capital Punishment

39. Supreme Court Finally Abolishes Death Penalty For Juveniles - Silver Chips Onlin Not only is subjecting juveniles to capital punishment morally reprehensible,but capital If the death penalty, especially as it applies to juveniles, http://silverchips.mbhs.edu/inside.php?sid=5064

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