Juvenile Death Penalty Today: Present Death Row Inmates Under Juvenile Death Sentences and Death Sentences and Executions for Juvenile Crimes, January 1, 1973, to February 1, 1991

• NCJ Number: 129170
• Author(s): V L Streib
• Date Published: 1991
• Length: 11 pages
• Corporate Author: Cleveland State University
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/; NCJRS Photocopy Services
• Publication Type: Report (Annual/Periodic)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This periodic report provides information on juvenile death sentencing and the current juvenile death row population.

Abstract

It begins with the historical and constitutional background of juvenile capital punishment and describes the current American death penalty system in the post-Furman years. A detailed listing of offender's name, year crime was committed, age at crime, race, gender, State, and current status is provided for each case of juvenile death sentence imposed. The data were derived from the research of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. and the National Coalition for the Abolition of the Death Penalty. Also included are demographic characteristics of the 31 condemned juveniles and their 38 victims. Case summaries for each of the current death row inmates under juvenile death sentences are provided in an alphabetical listing by State. 2 tables