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What is the youngest age at which one can be sentenced to death in any state of the United States?
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#45787. Asked by bloomsby.
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Kainantu
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Twenty-one states allow death sentences to be imposed on juvenile offenders who were at least 16 at the time of their crimes - a requirement of a 1988 Supreme Court ruling, which said that executing a 15-year-old was unconstitutional.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1226/p02s02-usju.html
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