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Out of thirty-eight states with the death penalty, twenty-two allow executions for crimes committed by juveniles. The Supreme Court said that it would decide weather the Constitution allows the executions of killers who commit their crimes before they are eighteen years of age. Currently, the minimum age for the death penalty in seventeen states is sixteen years old, in five states it is seventeen yrs. old and in and sixteen states it is eighteen yrs. old. One of the judges of the Suprem Court stated that people younger than eighteen lack the moral judgment to be fully responsible for their crimes. I personally agree with the statement the judge made. I do not believe that a child is familiar with the consequences and outcome of committing a murder or any other violent crimes. I would like to start of by asking; how can anybody agree with the death penalty being an option for the juveniles as a punishment? Teenagers are less mature and, therefore, less at fault than adults who commit similar acts but have no such explanation for their conduct. Adolescence is a transitional period of life when emotions, judgment, impulse control, and identity are still developing. In f