Juveniles on Death Row

Since 1980, 22 juveniles have been executed in the U.S. By state, Texas 13, Oklahoma 2, Virginia 3, Missouri 1, Louisiana 1, Georgia 1, South Carolina 1. 72 remain on death row: Texas 29, Alabama 14, Mississippi 5, North Carolina 4, Arizona 4, Louisiana 4, Florida 3, South Carolina 3, Georgia 2, Pennsylvania 2, Virginia 1, Nevada 1. (From today’s New York Times.) One blue state (PA). Inflamatory mode on: I guess it would be unfair to all of the other red states to throw them in with this bunch, but in my more hateful hours I really want to call red state voters kid killers.

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