According to the passage, which action did the U.S. Supreme Court find
constitutional? *
1 point
In 1989 the court held in Stanford versus Kentucky that the
Constitution allows states to impose the death penalty on an offender
who is 16 or 17 years old when he committed the crime.
In the interpretation of its terms we have established the necessity of
...standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society.
Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments forbid imposition of the death
penalty on offenders who are under the age of 18 when their crimes
were committed
Source Ropery. Simmons (2005)
The death penalty may be imposed on both adults and juveniles.
The death penalty may be imposed only
adults.
The death penalty may be imposed only on juveniles.
The death penalty may be imposed on neither adults nor juveniles.