Roper v. Simmons

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 2005-03-01

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*555 Justice Kennedy delivered the opinion of the Court. This case requires us to address, for the second time in a decade and a half, whether it is permissible under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States to execute a juvenile offender who was older *556 than…

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