In order to fully evaluate this sensitive topic I have presented a mixture of opposing perceptions related to the question should juveniles receive the death penalty for capital offenses? A collection of questions will be answered, first what are the reasons for abolishing the death penalty? Secondly, why does the death penalty for juveniles remain? How often is the death penalty given to juveniles and what if any are the profiles of juveniles on death row? Lastly, is discrimination present when studying the juvenile death penalty in relation to age, race, mental ability, and previous circumstances?

Overall, each article provides separate interpretations that intermingle or conflict on the debate of the death penalty for youth

Advocates for the Children’s forum emphasized the importance of children as our future generation. At the conference Venis explained negotiations and the discussion

and discrimination is allowed and rehabilitation is demolished. The majority of the articles placed in this research conclude that the death penalty discriminates based on race, class, and sexual preference. Mental ability and life experience were two common themes in these articles which state that the majority of inmates on death row have mental malfunctions that are not considered.

C. Cothern presents the point of view in opposition to the death penalty for youth with the argument that the juvenile justice system contradicts the foundation and purpose for separating the juvenile justice system from the adult system. The death penalty is looked at in a historical basis where the amount of people and juveniles executed is provided which are shocking numbers and strengthen Cothern’s argument. An international movement to abolish the death penalty is discussed and the article seeks to provide as an effective resource toward “humane responses to juvenile crime and violence” (Cothern, 2000, p.1). Cothern answers from a historical and current basis by analyzing past sentences as well as current acceptance and the precedence rate of the death penalty.

B. Friedman’s article is centralized on the United States Supreme Court’s appeal to narrow the death penalty. The death penalty was banned until 1976 and specific categories banned execution from crossing certain age barriers and mental capacity barriers.

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