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Oct 26, 2004

Chicago Sun-Times October 26, 2004 Editorial In 1993, 17-year-old Christopher Simmons and Charlie Benjamin, 15, broke into the home of Shirley Crook. They bound her hands, cov­ered her face with duct tape, took her to a ra…

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Oct 21, 2004

A CHICAGO TRIBUNE INVESTIGATIVE SERIESChicago Tribune vet­er­an project reporters Flynn McRoberts, Steve Mills and Maurice Possley, togeth­er with researcher Judith Marriott, scru­ti­nized crim­i­nal cas­es includ­ing ​“sci­en­tif­ic” …

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Oct 20, 2004

Daily Targum (Rutgers University)October 20, 2004EditorialThe Supreme Court is look­ing into ​“evolv­ing stan­dards of decen­cy” in con­sid­er­ing where it stands on con­tin­u­ing the prac­tice of sen­tenc­ing juve­niles to the death penalty…

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Oct 19, 2004

Sedalia (MO) DemocratOctober 19, 2004EditorialJuveniles some­times com­mit hor­rif­ic crimes, some unimag­in­able even for adults. But all nations of the world except two — the United States and Somalia — refuse to put youth­ful of…

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Oct 19, 2004

Minnesota DailyOctober 19, 2004EditorialLast week, the Supreme Court heard oral argu­ments in Roper v. Simmons, which will re-eval­u­ate whether the state may con­tin­ue exe­cut­ing juve­niles. Because the death penal­ty itself is immo…