List of juvenile offenders executed in the United States

List of juvenile offenders executed in the United States

This list of juvenile offenders executed in the United States consists of those people executed for criminal offences in the United States for which they were convicted while juveniles (before reaching the age of majority). Since 1642 (in the 13 colonies, the United States under the Articles of Confederation, and the current United States), an estimated 364 juvenile offenders have been put to death by states and the federal government. Twenty-two of those executions occurred after 1976. Due to the slow process of appeals since 1976, it has been highly unusual for a condemned person to actually be under 18 at the time of execution. The youngest person to be executed in the 20th century was George Stinney, at the age of 14, in 1944. The youngest person ever to be executed in the United States was James Arcene, who probably was only 10 or 11 years old when he was executed on June 18, 1885 for his role in a robbery and murder committed when he was 10 years old.

The last execution of a juvenile may have been Leonard Shockley, executed on April 10, 1959 at the age of 17. No one has been under age 19 at the time of execution since at least 1964. [http://users.bestweb.net/~rg/execution.htm Best Web] ] [http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?scid=27&did=206 Juvenile News and Developments - Previous Years ] ] Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, 22 people have been executed for crimes committed under the age of 18. 21 were 17 at the time of the crime; one, Sean Sellers, executed on February 4, 1999 in Oklahoma, was 16 when he committed his crime. After the Supreme Court's 2005 decision in "Roper v. Simmons", ussc|543|551|2005, the minimum age at time of crime to be subject to the death penalty is 18, ending execution as a punishment for juvenile offenders.

List of juvenile offenders executed in the United States since 1976

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*Capital punishment in the United States

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