Immature Minds in a "Maturing Society": Roper v. Simmons at 20 | Death Penalty Information Center In 2005, in Roper v. Simmons, the United States Supreme Court held that the “Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments forbid imposition of the death penalty on...

The Roper Court said age 18 was ​“the point where soci­ety draws the line for many pur­pos­es between child­hood and adult­hood.” Today, a grow­ing body of evi­dence now sug­gests that the line has been redrawn."

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