Death Penalty for Juveniles

In 2005, the US Supreme Court sentenced the death penalty to minors under the age of 18 at the rate of 5 to 4 years and considered the execution of the child as unconstitutional

The Legislature should decide whether the youth should be executed for capital punishment, not the court.

For each incident, the jury should judge the adolescent's crime, including the nature of the crime and the maturity of the individual.

In a society experiencing an increase in juvenile violence, banning the death penalty eliminates the long-awaited deterrent

What other countries have done in the implementation of minors has nothing to do with the court's consideration on US constitutional requirements.

According to scientific research, adolescent young people are underdeveloped and immature, and should not be found guilty, especially in the brain field which determines rationality, impulsive rule, decision-making.

The majority of the death row prison youth suffer from mental abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, drug addiction, abandonment and serious poverty.

The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Inter-American Convention on Human Rights, the Geneva Convention on the Protection of Wartime Civilians, and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child explicitly prohibit minors from enforcement .

In addition to Somalia, the United States is the only country in the world that is still running young people.

The death penalty for a juvenile who is convicted of murder is a controversial issue. In the very recent years the United States became one of the few countries in the world and became the only democratic industrial nation permitting the execution of a juvenile who was convicted of murder (Cothern, 2000; Streib, 2005). From 1973 to 2004 a total of 228 juvenile death sentences were imposed, 22 (14%) were executed, 134 (86%) withdrew or commuted (Streib, 2005). Most executions (13 or 59%) are taking place in Texas. Since 1973, less than 3% of the total number of death sentences of nearly 7,000 in the United States is a minor death sentence, of which two thirds are 17 years old, three years old is one third of 15 years old and 16 years old It occupies. Junior (Cothern, 2000)

Since a series of Supreme Curt decided to maintain the death penalty for young people, juvenile offenders have consistently been sentenced to death in the past 20 years. Since 1973, a 196 juvenile sentencing judgment has been imposed. This figure accounts for less than 3% of about 6,900 death sentences in the United States. About two-thirds of that is imposed on people aged 17 and 17, about one-third are 15 and 16 (see Table 2). The boy 's mortality rate was initially somewhat unstable, fluctuating over the years since Furman v. Georgia (1972), but it became more stable in the mid - 1980s. This proportion probably declined in the late 1980s due to litigation in the Supreme Court (Streib, 2000).

Discussion on the use of the death penalty for minors is getting more intense as it requires more stringent punishment for serious and violent juvenile offenders and a lot of debate about the legality of the death penalty. According to a recent poll by Oklahoma residents, 62.8% of respondents say they will support the law prohibiting the execution of juvenile offenders. I will go to jail. Life judgment without parole (Heartney) According to research by Cohen and Kluegel, the experience of adult punishment shows that the recidivism rate of juvenile offenders has increased. Another study conducted by North Eastern University in 1996 found that teenagers transferred to the criminal court system had been housed for a long time.