@article{ref1,
title="Killing kids: the juvenile death penalty and community sentiment",
journal="Behavioral sciences and the law",
year="1994",
author="Finkel, Norman J. and Hughes, Kevin C. and Smith, Stephanie F. and Hurabiell, Mane L.",
volume="12",
number="1",
pages="5-20",
abstract="In the Supreme Court's Eighth Amendment jurisprudence, &quot;community sentiment&quot; plays a central if not dispositive role in determining if a punishment is disproportionate. To gauge sentiment on the death penalty for juveniles, two experiments with death-qualified subjects were run, where age (a 15-25 age range) and case (heinousness) were varied in the first, and type of defendant (principal, accessory, or felony-murder accessory) and an extended age range (13-25) varied in the second. Significant age effects occur in both experiments, with approximately 75% and 65% refusing to give the death penalty for the youngest (13-15) and next youngest (16-18) groups, whereas 60% give the death penalty for the 25-year-old. In their reasons for their decisions, the killing kid was judged less blameworthy and death-worthy. Although politicians have called for &quot;a man-sized punishment for a man-sized crime,&quot; this community does not see that &quot;man-sized&quot; punishment fitting the kid.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0735-3936",
doi="10.1002/bsl.2370120103",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bsl.2370120103"
}