Preclude juveniles from execution

Humanist, May-June, 2004 by Karen Ann Gajewski

* South Dakota and Wyoming have joined twenty-nine other U.S. states that preclude juveniles from execution (eighteen of which ban it directly and twelve of which ban all death penalties). According to a December 2003 Harris poll, 69 percent of Americans oppose the death penalty for juvenile offenders. In fact, in 2003 only two juries in the United States imposed death sentences on juveniles.