What supreme court case banned the death penalty? When?

Answer 1

The United States Supreme Court abolished capital punishment for offenders under the age of 16 in Thompson v. Oklahoma (1988), and for all juveniles in Roper v. Simmons (2005). Since 1642, an estimated 364 juvenile offenders were executed by the states and federal government of the US and its ancestral political bodies[5]. In 2002, the United States Supreme Court outlawed the execution of individuals with mental retardation.

Answer 2

In Furman v. Georgia (1972), the court said the death penalty violated the 8th Amendment because it was applied arbitrarily and capriciously. However, the wording left open the possibility that the death penalty could be OK if it were applied regularly and evenhandedly and some states did enact new death penalty laws afterward, to comply with the Furman decision.
So it would not be entirely accurate to say that the Supreme Court BANNED the death penalty.

It did, however, strike down the juvenile death penalty last year.

Answer 3

i dont know which case but here is some info>>>>>>>




The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the Constitution forbids the execution of killers who were under 18 when they committed their crimes, ending a practice used in 19 states. The 5-4 decision throws out the death sentences of about 70 juvenile murderers and bars states from seeking to execute minors for future crimes. The executions, the court said, were unconstitutionally cruel.

It was the second major defeat at the high court in three years for supporters of the death penalty. Justices in 2002 banned the execution of the mentally retarded, also citing the Constitution’s Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishments. The court had already outlawed executions for those who were 15 and younger when they committed their crimes. Tuesday’s ruling prevents states from making 16- and 17-year-olds eligible for execution.


The justices, in a 6-3 ruling that reversed a 1989 decision, said that imposing the death penalty on retarded criminals violates their constitutional protection against cruel and unusual punishment.

The decision is confined to mentally retarded defendants convicted of murder and does not address the constitutionality of capital punishment in general.

The majority view reflects changes in public attitudes on the issue since the court declared such executions constitutional 13 years ago. At that time, only two states that used capital punishment outlawed the practice for the retarded. Now, 18 states prohibit it.

Answer 4

Hang on..... The Death Penalty is decided upon by each individual state. Some have it as a criminal sentence, and some don't, because their citizen's voted not to have it. The U.S. Government also has the Death Penalty for some Federal Crimes.

Check the website below:

Answer 5

for what state? America still uses the death penalty in some states not all abolished it.