OVERVIEW OF THOSE WHO WERE UNDER JUVENILE DEATH SENTENCES As of December 31, 2004, 71 persons were on death row for juvenile crimes. These 71 condemned juveniles constituted about 2% of the total death row population of 3,487. Although all were ages 16 or 17 at the time of their crimes, their current ages range from 18 to 43. They were under death sentences in 12 different states and had been on death row from 4 months to 24 years. Texas had by far the largest death row for juvenile offenders, holding 29 (40%) of the national total of 72 juvenile offenders.
All of the juvenile offenders who were on death row are male and had been convicted and sentenced to death for murder. The demographic characteristics of these juveniles and their victims are outlined in the table below.
Over three-quarters of these cases involved 17 year old offenders, and two-thirds of them were offenders of color. In contrast, 81% of the victims were adults. Over two-thirds of the victims are white, and half are females. Link to the website:

Juvenile Offenders Who Were on Death Row

Two other links
Amnesty International USA: Death Penalty

Iran Has 140 Children on "Death Row"

If you have the time, an interesting documentary:
YouTube - Death Row Kids - USA

I'm against DP 100%, in every case. But i'm just curious what your opinions are about children on Death row?

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I dont feel they should be in an adult prison more less on dp.

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this mod needs coffee

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Fortunately the USSC Ruled that they could not be executed.

I feel inmates who are 18 and younger should NOT be housed with adult offenders.

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I am watching the youtube link, ''kids on death row'' and wondering if these two men are off death row now because of what Skye says above me.

I know for a fact that one of them is no longer on death row

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that's a good thing now the other one too and maybe all the others..... nobody deserves to be on death row!!

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be nice to the people on your way up,because you will meet them again on your way down

With the ruling, anyone 17 years old and under at the time the crime was committed can not be given the DP. One of the two was 17. I am unsure the other man in the video was 17 or 18, if he was 18 he is not covered by the ruling.

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Under no circumstances should they be punished as harsh as adults. Partly
they are victims of their hormones and partly they are a product of their environment. So first they should look at the past of that person and than
normally they would see that this person didn`t have a rosy life... When
people are on Death Row they are only partly guilty of their crime because
there are always people or the society they grew up in that could be con-
sidered guilty aswell. Gandhi once said that eye for an eye makes the whole
world blind. I think there is a lot of wisdom in that sentence... Also he said:

Hate the sin, love the sinner