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Current Cases
On March 1, 2005 in the case of Roper v. Simmons, the US Supreme Court, held in a 5-4 vote that the death penalty, as applied to those under eighteen years of age at the time of the crime, violates evolving standards of decency and is prohibited by the Eighth Amendment ban on "cruel and unusual punishment" of the US Constitution.
The page below consists of archived information.
For further information on the decision and context click here
Below are the juvenile cases on which the IJP was working. It should be noted that all scheduled juvenile executions were stayed pending Simmons. Each US State is now taking steps to implement the US Supreme Court’s decision in Simmons V. Roper. Correspondingly, there will now be no further updates.
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