[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi Sooz,
>Sooz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>The countries that execute children are Iraq, Iran, Saudi
>> Arabia, Yemen, Sudan, and the United States. Other countries are more
>> civilized.
>> Best, Terry
>The United States executes children????
>Please explain what you mean. I had no idea that any children have been
>executed in this country. You are talking about the death penalty,
>right? The appeals process takes years and years so I don't understand
>how a child could possibly be executed.
>Sooz
> > Children Sentenced to Death
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > June 16, 1944: George Stinney Jr. (14) is executed in
> > South Carolina's electric chair. He was only 5'-1" tall
> > and weighed 95 pounds. A local paper reported that
> > the guards had difficulties strapping him onto the chair and
> > attaching the electrodes.
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Since 1990 only five countries including the United States have sentenced
those convicted of crimes when they were minors to death. With appeals you
are correct that 16- and 17-year-olds are likely to mature before we execute
them.
No minimum age: Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Montana, Pennsylvania, South
Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Washington
Minimum age 14: Arkansas
Minimum age 15: Louisiana, Virginia
Minimum age 16: Alabama, Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi,
Missouri, Nevada, Oklahoma, Wyoming
Minimum age 17: Georgia, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Texas
Total: 25 states allow executions for juvenile offenses
(Source: Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau)
[I have no explanation for the reason the 11- and 13-year-olds in Jonesboro
cannot be tried as adults according to news reports. There may have been
changes in the law since the above data was compiled.]
Damien Echols was 17 years old when he supposedly participated in the murder
of three small boys. He was convicted in West Memphis, Arkansas, in a wave
of hysteria over satanic cults with laughable evidence. In his case some
prison guards were actually fired for permitting his daily sodomization by
another prisoner on death row over a period of weeks. His prospects for
eventual exoneration are quite guarded under current rules for appeals.
Best, Terry
"Lawyer - one trained to circumvent the law" - The Devil's Dictionary
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