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Article: Supreme Court to consider ending execution of juveniles.(St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
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- January 26, 2004
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Byline: Karen Branch-Brioso
WASHINGTON _ Fifteen years after the Supreme Court said the Constitution doesn't bar states from executing 16- or 17-year-old killers, it decided Monday to take up the issue again, using Missouri's appeal of the reprieve given a Death Row inmate.
The court said it would consider the case of Christopher Simmons, who was 17 when he murdered Shirley Crook of Fenton in 1993. He and a younger accomplice broke into Crook's home, bound her with duct tape and tossed her _ alive _ into the Meramec River, where she drowned.
Simmons was convicted and sentenced to death, but the Missouri Supreme Court overturned the sentence in ...