Juveniles
Additional Resources
American Bar Association Juvenile Justice Center
- “The Exclusion of Child Offenders from the Death Penalty Under General International Law”
- “Indecent and Internationally Illegal: the Death Penalty Against Child Offenders”
Time Magazine Article, “What Makes Teens Tick,” May 10, 2004
Scripps Howard News Service Article, “New research shows stark differences in teen brains,” May 11, 2004
Wall Street Journal Article, “Psychiatrists Question Death for Teen Killers,” May 26, 2004
Ferdinand, Pamela, “Seventeen an Awkward Age, N.H. Juvenile Justice Finds: In Reversal, State Moves to Raise Criminal Adulthood to 18,” Washington Post, March 27, 2002 at A03.
Bonner, Raymond and Rimer, Sara, “Young and Condemned/A Special Report: Whether to Kill Those Who Killed as Youths” New York Times, August 22, 2000.
DPIC Resources
- Podcast: Protecting Especially Vulnerable Defendants from the Death Penalty
- Report: Racial Disparities in Death Sentences Imposed on Late Adolescent Offenders Have Grown Since Supreme Court Ruling Banning Juvenile Death Penalty
- American Psychological Association Overwhelmingly Votes to Adopt Resolution Opposing Death Penalty for Adolescents Aged 18-20
Archival DPIC Content
- Juveniles News and Developments 2000
- Juveniles News and Developments 2001
- Juveniles News and Developments 2002
- Juveniles News and Developments 2003
- Juveniles News and Developments 2004
- Juveniles News and Developments 2005
- Juveniles News and Developments 2008
Information and Analysis
Articles and Other Publications
- Capital Punishment Trials of Youthful Offenders: The Impact of ACE’s Mitigation (2023)
- Roper and Race: the Nature and Effects of Death Penalty Exclusions for Juveniles and the “Late Adolescent Class” (2023)
- Connecticut Supreme Court Holds Sentence Based on Discredited Superpredator Myth Is Illegal (2022)
- Making the Sentencing Case: Psychological and Neuroscientific Evidence for Expanding the Age of Youthful Offenders (2022)
- They Went to Prison as Kids, Now They’re on Death Row (2020)