How many states permit death penalty to juveniles?

42

34 Additional: The answer (above) IS correct as of March 9, 2011, when the Illinois State Legislature passed legislation banning the death penalty in that state. The US Government and the US Military...

There are currently 15 states plus the District of Columbia that do not use the death penalty. Officially, only 14 of the states have banned captial punishment; the fifteenth state, New York, still...

There were the original 13 states, although the death penalty was established in the US long before the US was a separate nation.

In the United States, no minors have been sentenced to the death penalty since 2004. The US Supreme Court ruled in Roper v. Simmons, (2005) that it is unconstitutional to execute an offender for...