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Comment by Uchikoma

13 years ago

He was probably wrong on that and meant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_juvenile_offenders_exec...

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Uchikoma  13 years ago

Correcting myself: "The youngest person to be executed in the 20th century was George Stinney, electrocuted in South Carolina at the age of fourteen on June 16, 1944. [...] The last execution of a juvenile may have been convicted murderer Leonard Shockley, who died in the Maryland gas chamber on April 10, 1959, at the age of 17."