Juvenile Death Penalty

A 16 year old boy is at the peak of adolescence and has discovered the aims of learning, puberty, maturity, right and wrong and future life goals. On the other hand, a 25-year-old man has matured, lived long enough, judged good and bad, and already achieved the goal of life that was once thought to be a teenager. In some circumstances it is ethical to compare the idea of ​​separation between the two worlds and the criteria and penalties of the justice system.

In the United States, the first recorded teenager was executed by a young Thomas Grauger hanged in 1684 on sexual relations between horse and cow. History of the death penalty for boys: an important event in the United States, Washington Post, July 19, 1988, Z 15. Since then, American society has tried to solve the question of whether teenagers can endure crime. Normally, the juvenile death sentence includes a moral argument. Is the execution of the teenager correct? Does the juvenile's death penalty contradict the decent standards of modern society? These problems are spreading in societies that are increasingly globalized. Because the United States is still one of the final minor death sentences. Therefore, the Supreme Court ruling of Roper v. Simmons will not only have a major impact on young people in society, but will also affect the status and status of the world in the world.

Since the death penalty was restored in 1976, 22 criminals were executed in the United States for crimes committed during puberty. However, the death penalty was abolished in 2005 and was declared cruel and unusual punishment after Roper v. Simmons Supreme Court's ruling. Young people can also be tried as adults of the High Court for murder, certain gun crimes, and crimes of serious crime (including sexual violence and child sexual offenses). Unlike the court, the trial is open to the public. Judges can exempt the suppression of media names at his discretion, but young people can not publicize his / her own name according to the law.