The juvenile justice system was created to treat and to rehabilitate the juvenile offender. But transfers to the adult criminal system allows for juvenile offenders to receive the death penalty for capital crimes. This Note examines the theories of punishment underlying the death penalty, briefly discusses the creation of the juvenile court system and the mechanism of juvenile transfer. This Note then discusses the development of the death penalty by examining Supreme Court cases which have considered state laws challenged under the eighth amendment as forms of cruel and unusual punishment. Supreme Court decisions which have extended constitutional guarantees to minors in the areas of criminal prosecutions and privacy rights also are ex...
This fall, the United States Supreme Court will consider the constitutionality of the juvenile death...
The Eighth Amendment reads, “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor ...
In the past decade, the Supreme Court has transformed the constitutional landscape of juvenile crime...
The juvenile justice system was created to treat and to rehabilitate the juvenile offender. But ...
As our analysis of jury decisionmaking in juvenile capital trials was nearing completion, the Missou...
In light of the ongoing discussion of the role of courts and the process by which they interpret and...
In 2003, the Missouri Supreme Court set aside the death sentence of Christopher Simmons, who was 17 ...
The Supreme Court in Roper v. Simmons 1 interpreted the Eighth Amendment to prohibit states from exe...
The United States juvenile death penalty was abolished in 2005 when the Supreme Court, in Roper v. S...
The final clause of the Eighth Amendment is the source of this nation\u27s prohibition on unconstitu...
Part II of this Note will look at the court\u27s decision to allow juveniles to be sentenced to life...
In most states, juveniles may receive the sentence of life without the possibility of parole when co...
The practice of imposing the death penalty for crimes committed while under the age of eighteen has ...
Over 2,589 individuals sit in prison, where they have been condemned to die for crimes they committe...
The Supreme Court of the United States held that the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the e...
This fall, the United States Supreme Court will consider the constitutionality of the juvenile death...
The Eighth Amendment reads, “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor ...
In the past decade, the Supreme Court has transformed the constitutional landscape of juvenile crime...
The juvenile justice system was created to treat and to rehabilitate the juvenile offender. But ...
As our analysis of jury decisionmaking in juvenile capital trials was nearing completion, the Missou...
In light of the ongoing discussion of the role of courts and the process by which they interpret and...
In 2003, the Missouri Supreme Court set aside the death sentence of Christopher Simmons, who was 17 ...
The Supreme Court in Roper v. Simmons 1 interpreted the Eighth Amendment to prohibit states from exe...
The United States juvenile death penalty was abolished in 2005 when the Supreme Court, in Roper v. S...
The final clause of the Eighth Amendment is the source of this nation\u27s prohibition on unconstitu...
Part II of this Note will look at the court\u27s decision to allow juveniles to be sentenced to life...
In most states, juveniles may receive the sentence of life without the possibility of parole when co...
The practice of imposing the death penalty for crimes committed while under the age of eighteen has ...
Over 2,589 individuals sit in prison, where they have been condemned to die for crimes they committe...
The Supreme Court of the United States held that the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the e...
This fall, the United States Supreme Court will consider the constitutionality of the juvenile death...
The Eighth Amendment reads, “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor ...
In the past decade, the Supreme Court has transformed the constitutional landscape of juvenile crime...
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