Describe and list the most important court decisions regarding sentencing juveniles to the death penalty.What is the current legal position on the issue?
What will be an ideal response?
• In 1982, the Court decided Eddings v. Oklahoma, declaring that the youthful age of a defendant should be considered a mitigating factor in deciding whether to apply the death penalty during the penalty phase of a capital punishment trial.In Sanford v. Kentucky (1989), the Court determined that the minimum age at which a juvenile could receive the death penalty is sixteen.In 2002, the Court refused to accept and hear the case of In re Sanford, which asked the Court to again address the issue of capital punishment juveniles. However, in the 2005 Roper v. Simmons decision, which is the current legal position, the Court held that "the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments forbid the imposition of the death penalty on offenders who are under the age of eighteen when their crimes were committed."
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