Stanford v. Kentucky
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| Stanford v. Kentucky | |||||||||||||
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| Argued March 27, 1989 Decided June 26, 1989 |
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| Death penalty for juveniles was not cruel and unusual punishment thus did not violate the Eighth Amendment. | |||||||||||||
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| Chief Justice: William Rehnquist Associate Justices: William J. Brennan, Byron White, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun, John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy |
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| Majority by: Scalia Joined by: Kennedy, Rehnquist, White Concurrence by: O'Connor Dissent by: Brennan Joined by: Blackmun, Marshall, Stevens |
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| Laws applied | |||||||||||||
| U.S. Const. amend. VIII | |||||||||||||
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| Roper v. Simmons | |||||||||||||
Stanford v. Kentucky, , was a Supreme Court case that sanctioned the imposition of the death penalty on offenders who were at least 16 years of age at the time of the crime. This decision came one year after Thompson v. Oklahoma, in which the Court had held that a 15-year-old offender could not be executed because to do so would constitute cruel and unusual punishment. In 2003, the Governor of Kentucky commuted the death sentence of Kevin Stanford, an action that led the Supreme Court two years later in Roper v. Simmons to overrule Stanford and hold that all juvenile offenders are exempt from the death penalty.
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