Entries by Maya Tello

In April 2025, the Death Penalty Information Center (DPI) released Immature Minds in a​“Maturing Society”: Roper v. Simmons at 20, which found that “[a] mean­ing­ful exam­i­na­tion of all the evi­dence sug­gests that 18‑, 19- and 20-year-olds are equal­ly deserv­ing as those under 18 to be exclud­ed from death penal­ty eli­gi­bil­i­ty.” Included in the report was an analy­sis of trends in sen­tenc­ing and exe­cu­tions of defen­dants age 18 to 20 based on twen­ty years of data, from the…

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