{"id":4414,"date":"2025-06-25T08:46:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T08:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xod.ita.mybluehost.me\/website_d3f13c65\/\/index.php\/?p=4414"},"modified":"2025-07-02T07:07:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:07:22","slug":"juveniles-executed-in-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalpunishmentuk.org\/juveniles-executed-in-the-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Executions of Juveniles in the United States (1985\u20132003)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Between 1985 and 2003, seven US states executed twenty-one 17-year-old males and one 16-year-old (Sean Sellers).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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List of Juvenile Executions by Name, State, Race, Method, Date, and Crime<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Name<\/th>Race<\/th>State<\/th>Method<\/th>Date<\/th>Victims\/Crime<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Charles Rumbaugh<\/td>White<\/td>Texas<\/td>Injection<\/td>9\/11\/95<\/td>1 \u2013 robbery\/murder<\/td><\/tr>
J. Terry Roach<\/td>White<\/td>S. Carolina<\/td>Electrocution<\/td>1\/10\/86<\/td>2 \u2013 rape\/murder & murder<\/td><\/tr>
Jay Pinkerton<\/td>White<\/td>Texas<\/td>Injection<\/td>5\/15\/86<\/td>2 \u2013 rape\/murder<\/td><\/tr>
Dalton Prejean<\/td>Black<\/td>Louisiana<\/td>Electrocution<\/td>5\/18\/90<\/td>1 \u2013 police officer<\/td><\/tr>
Johnny Garrett<\/td>White<\/td>Texas<\/td>Injection<\/td>2\/11\/92<\/td>1 \u2013 rape\/murder<\/td><\/tr>
Curtis Harris<\/td>Black<\/td>Texas<\/td>Injection<\/td>7\/1\/93<\/td>1 \u2013 robbery\/murder<\/td><\/tr>
Frederick Lashley<\/td>Black<\/td>Missouri<\/td>Injection<\/td>7\/28\/93<\/td>1 \u2013 robbery\/murder<\/td><\/tr>
Ruben Cantu<\/td>Latino<\/td>Texas<\/td>Injection<\/td>8\/24\/93<\/td>1 \u2013 robbery\/murder<\/td><\/tr>
Chris Burger<\/td>White<\/td>Georgia<\/td>Electrocution<\/td>12\/7\/93<\/td>1 \u2013 robbery\/murder<\/td><\/tr>
Joseph Cannon<\/td>White<\/td>Texas<\/td>Injection<\/td>4\/22\/98<\/td>1 \u2013 robbery\/rape\/murder<\/td><\/tr>
Robert Carter<\/td>Black<\/td>Texas<\/td>Injection<\/td>5\/18\/98<\/td>1 \u2013 robbery\/murder<\/td><\/tr>
Dwayne Allen Wright<\/td>Black<\/td>Virginia<\/td>Injection<\/td>10\/14\/98<\/td>1 in Virginia + 3 in other states<\/td><\/tr>
Sean Sellers<\/td>White<\/td>Oklahoma<\/td>Injection<\/td>2\/4\/99<\/td>3 \u2013 including mother & stepfather<\/td><\/tr>
Douglas Thomas<\/td>White<\/td>Virginia<\/td>Injection<\/td>1\/10\/00<\/td>2 \u2013 girlfriend\u2019s parents<\/td><\/tr>
Steven Roach<\/td>White<\/td>Virginia<\/td>Injection<\/td>1\/13\/00<\/td>1 \u2013 robbery\/murder<\/td><\/tr>
Glen McGinnis<\/td>Black<\/td>Texas<\/td>Injection<\/td>1\/25\/00<\/td>1 \u2013 robbery\/murder<\/td><\/tr>
Gary Lee Graham<\/td>Black<\/td>Texas<\/td>Injection<\/td>6\/22\/00<\/td>1 \u2013 robbery\/murder<\/td><\/tr>
Gerald Mitchell<\/td>Black<\/td>Texas<\/td>Injection<\/td>10\/22\/01<\/td>2 \u2013 robbery\/murder<\/td><\/tr>
Napoleon Beazley<\/td>Black<\/td>Texas<\/td>Injection<\/td>5\/28\/02<\/td>1 \u2013 car jacking\/murder<\/td><\/tr>
T.J. Jones<\/td>Black<\/td>Texas<\/td>Injection<\/td>8\/8\/02<\/td>1 \u2013 robbery\/murder<\/td><\/tr>
Toronto Patterson<\/td>Black<\/td>Texas<\/td>Injection<\/td>8\/28\/02<\/td>3 \u2013 mother and 2 children<\/td><\/tr>
Scott Allen Hain<\/td>White<\/td>Oklahoma<\/td>Injection<\/td>4\/3\/03<\/td>2 \u2013 car jacking\/murder<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Between 1985 and 2003, seven US states executed twenty-one 17-year-old males and one 16-year-old (Sean Sellers). List of Juvenile Executions by Name, State, Race, Method, Date, and Crime Name Race State Method Date Victims\/Crime Charles Rumbaugh White Texas Injection 9\/11\/95 1 \u2013 robbery\/murder J. Terry Roach White S. Carolina Electrocution 1\/10\/86 2 \u2013 rape\/murder & … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capital-punishment-in-the-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalpunishmentuk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalpunishmentuk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalpunishmentuk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalpunishmentuk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalpunishmentuk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalpunishmentuk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalpunishmentuk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalpunishmentuk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalpunishmentuk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}