JUVENILE DEATH PENALTY TODAY: PRESENT DEATH ROW INMATES UNDER JUVENILE DEATH SENTENCES AND DEATH SENTENCES AND EXECUTIONS FOR JUVENILE CRIMES, JANUARY 1, 1973, TO DECEMBER 31, 1993

• NCJ Number: 146748
• Author(s): V L Streib
• Date Published: 1994
• Length: 17 pages
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/; NCJRS Photocopy Services
• Publication Format: Document
• Publication Type: Survey
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This analysis of capital punishment for juveniles reveals that both the annual juvenile death sentencing rate and the juvenile death row inmate population are very small in comparison to that for adults, each being between 1 percent and 2 percent of the totals.

Abstract

Four juvenile offenders were executed in the last half of 1993, as many as had been executed in the entire preceding 7 years. In the past decade, homicide arrests of adults have increased about 25 percent, while homicide arrests of juvenile have risen about 170 percent. However, the increasing number of arrests of juveniles for potentially capital crimes has not resulted either in a comparable rise in juvenile death sentencing or in a rise in the number of juveniles on death row. Footnotes, tables, and case summaries for death row inmates under juvenile sentences as of December 31, 1993