juvenile delinquency, siegel et al.
during the past 20 years, 196 juvenile death sentences have been imposed (about 3 percent of the almost 6,900 total U.S. death sentences). approximately two-thirds of these have been imposed on 17-year-olds and nearly one-third on 15- and 16-year-olds. as of 2003, 21 states permitted the juvenile death penalty
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