Juvenile Death Penalty

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This paper discusses the possibility of enforcing a juvenile death penalty for youth that have committed serious violent crimes. The paper discusses the history of the death penalty for underage offenders and the change in the laws in the United States with regard to its implementation. The paper also discusses the aims of juvenile justice and how the death penalty does or does not further these aims.

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"Regardless of the source of the ethical view there are rising tides that express the evolving attitude that the death penalty, in any case is not a deterrent and is ethically wrong, regardless of the crime or the circumstances of it. The ethical implications of this ruling clearly create issues surrounding age of consent, as the determining factor of the decision, if an individual is not of the age to consent to vote, join the military, or even buy alcohol, cigarettes or even a lottery ticket in most states they should therefore not be of the age to consent to an understanding of or a level of legal responsibility for their violent actions."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Calabresi, Steven G., and Stephanie Dotson Zimdahl. "The Supreme Court and Foreign Sources of Law: Two Hundred Years of Practice and the Juvenile Death Penalty Decision." William and Mary Law Review 47.3 (2005): 743.
• Streib, Victor, L. The Juvenile Death Penalty Today: Death Sentences and Executions for Juvenile Crimes January 1, 1973-June 30, 2003. online at: http://www.law.onu.edu/faculty/streib/juvdeath.htm July 1, 2003.
• Tanenhaus, David S. Juvenile Justice in the Making. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

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