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THEIR NAMES:

Adams, Renaldo
dob: July 2,1980
On death row since:
Dec. 11, 1998
Crime: rape, murder

Bonds, James Willis
dob: July 24, 1983
On death row since: Nov 11, 2002
Crime: robbery, murder.

Davis, Timothy Charles
dob: March 18, 1961
On death row since:
July 28, 1980
Crime: robbery, murder.

Duke, Mark Anthony
dob: May 15, 1980
On death row since:
March 25, 1998
Crime: murder.

Duncan, Trace
dob: Nov. 5, 1976
On death row since:
May, 1996
Crime: murder

Hart, Gary Davis II
dob: Sept 19,1972
On death row since:
May 5, 1990
Crime: robbery, murder.

Hyde, James Matthew
dob: March 2, 1977
On death row since:
July 19, 1996
Crime: murder.

Knotts, William Thomas
dob: Nov. 20, 1971
On death row since:
Aug. 1, 1992
Crime: burg, murder.

Loggins, Kenny
dob: Sept. 15, 1976
On death row since:
May, 1996
Crime: murder

Pressley, Marcus
dob: Nov. 24, 1979
On death row since:
Oct. 10, 1997
Crime: robbery, murder.

Slaton, Nathan D
dob: Oct. 5, 1969
On death row since:
May 22, 1990
Crime: rape, murder.

Wimberly, Shaber
dob: Sept. 6, 1979
On death row since:
July 30, 1998
Crime: murder

Wynn, Gregory
dob: Feb. 9, 1981
On death row since:
Sept. 17, 1999
Crime: robbery, murder.


For more information and details go to Resources link, above, and read "Juvenile Death Penalty today" ~ Prof. V. Streib

High Court Ends Death Penalty
for Juveniles
 Read latest media on U.S. Supreme Court decision
 Click here !! or go to Media link above

The decision in Roper v. Simmons in available at:
http://wid.ap.org/documents/scotus/050301roper.pdf

World support, Amicus Briefs - Juvenile Death Penalty
Click to learn more ...

 Is it unconstitutionally cruel to execute juvenile killers?
   To be decided by the Supreme Court in the 2nd half of the term:
  (Roper v. Simmons, 03-633.) Argument heard Oct. 13. 2004
  (source: Associated Press - Feb 17, 2005)

Call to stop executions of juvenile offenders -- U.S. is among few nations that allow execution of people under 18
Physicians for Human Rights -
click to read information

Sign a petition calling for an end to juvenile executions at: http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/
organizations/ncadp/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=16
A favorable ruling would immediately save dozens of persons now facing death sentences!

The transcript in the Supreme Court oral arguments out now:

http://www.supremecourtus.gov/
oral_arguments/argument_
transcripts/03-633.pdf

click to read transcript

Last U.S. Juvenile Executions

Stayed
 Executed Executed
Executed
Executed 		29 June, 2004
03 April, 2003
28 August, 2002
08 August, 2002
28 May, 2002 		Mauro Barraza
Scott Hain
Toronto Patterson
T.J. Jones
Napolean Beazley 		Texas
Oklahoma
Texas
Texas
Texas

Court Asked to End Juvenile Executions Click to read article

  • Missouri Supreme Court

    For these reasons, this Court concludes that the Supreme Court of the United States would hold that the execution of persons for crimes committed when they were under 18 years of age violates the "evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society," and is prohibited by the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution as applied to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment.

    Simmons v. Roper, Case # SC84454
    August 26, 2003

    • STOP the execution of Children

    Execution in the form of electrocution, gassing and lethal injection of juveniles in the U.S. has doubled in the last decade. The U.S. Supreme court deems this is not “cruel and unusual” punishment.

    The U.S. continues to execute juveniles, the most recent execution is that of Scott Allen Hain who was executed in Oklahoma on April 3, 2003 after gaining a stay of execution a day earlier. (Read News article). The previous year Toronto Patterson, T.J. Jones and Napolean Beazley were executed in Texas. More juveniles are executed in the U.S. than any other country. Alabama has sentenced to death more children per capita than any other state that has the death penalty.

    Alabama allows the death penalty to be applied to juveniles at age 16 years. Of the 13 juveniles currently on Alabama's death row, two were sentenced to death when they were only 16 years old.

    In 1996, prosecutors in Mississippi sought the death penalty for a child as young as thirteen years old. The youngest child known to have had the death penalty imposed upon him was Cherokee child, James Arcene who was executed by the federal government in Arkansas on June 18, 1885, for a crime committed when he was only 10. He was hanged.

    On June 16, 1944 in South Carolina, fourteen year old George Stinney, was so small his mask fell off while he was being electrocuted. Of the children executed in the U.S., nine have been girls.

    Since 2000, only four countries in the world are known to have executed juveniles. These are, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Iran, Pakistan, and the United States. Further narrowing the list, Pakistan recently abolished the death penalty for juvenile offenders and the DRC has established a moratorium on executions.

    Twenty U.S. states allow for the execution of people who were 16 or 17 at the time of the crime. As of December 2002, around 80 juvenile offenders are on death row facing execution; this constitutes approximately 2% of the total death row population.
    source Amnesty International

    U.S. Breaches of International Law

    The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) article 6, prohibits the execution of persons who were below age 18 at the time of their crime. The U.S. ratified the ICCPR, entering a reservation to Article 6. Numerous European countries have voiced their objection to this U.S. reservation on the grounds that it is incompatible with the Covenant's object and purpose.

    The Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 37 (a) states that no child shall be subjected to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Neither capital punishment nor life imprisonment without possibility of release shall be imposed for offenses committed by persons below eighteen years of age.

    American Convention on Human Rights

    American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR): "Capital punishment shall not be imposed upon persons who, at the time the crime was committed, were under 18 years of age..." (Article 4(5))

    For more details and information please refer to the Resources link above, or to the appropriate Treaty, above.

    For further developments refer to Media link above

    Something to think about

    Words from death row......

    Hope and Hopelessness
    The Haunting Existence to Death
    Questions
    Tell Me
    Lost Morals
    The Right not to Extradite
    On the Row
    Legacy of Executions
    The Courtroom
    Lethal Justice: Two wrongs don't make a right...
    Humane
    Execution
    I Never Thought
    Holding Myself Accountable

    The above listed titles are the last writings
    from the young men who were on Alabama's death ...

    For a full list of articles go to
    The complete list of Titles


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