Question

What is the lowest age that the Supreme Court has recently declared a juvenile can be executed?

Option 1: 16
Option 2: 18
Option 3: 21
Option 4: 25

Answer 1

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that individuals cannot be executed for crimes committed before they turned 18, with the lowest age being 18 as established by the Roper v. Simmons case in 2005.

Step-by-step explanation:

The lowest age that the Supreme Court has recently declared a juvenile can be executed is 18. This was established in Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551 (2005), where the Court ruled that the death penalty may not be imposed on juvenile offenders who were under the age of 18 at the time of the crime.

This decision is aligned with a series of rulings that narrowed the application of the death penalty, which include prohibiting the execution of defendants with intellectual disabilities and those who have committed non-hom-icidal crimes like child ra-pe where the victim did not die.