Citation

Ogloff JRP. Behav. Sci. Law 1987; 5(4): 447-455.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1987, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/bsl.2370050408

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The United States is alone among western industrialized nations in allowing a provision for the juvenile death penalty. Specifically, 92% of the juveniles presently sentenced to death were convicted under a felony-murder doctrine which eliminates the state's burden of proving the mens rea requirement for murder. The high rate of felony-murder convictions of juveniles on death row is highly inconsistent with theories of punishment which have traditionally been used to support the death penalty.

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