<P> The youngest person to be executed in the 20th century was George Stinney , electrocuted in South Carolina at the age of 14 on June 16 , 1944 . The second youngest person to be executed in the 20th century was Fortune Ferguson in 1927 for rape in Florida . The youngest person ever to be sentenced to death in the United States was James Arcene , a Native American , for his role in a robbery and murder committed when he was ten years old . He was , however , 23 years old when he was actually executed on June 18 , 1885 . The last execution of a juvenile was convicted murderer Leonard Shockley , who died in the Maryland gas chamber on April 10 , 1959 , at the age of 17 . No one has been under the age of 19 at the time of execution since at least 1964 . </P>
<P> The youngest person to be executed in the 20th century was George Stinney , electrocuted in South Carolina at the age of 14 on June 16 , 1944 . The second youngest person to be executed in the 20th century was Fortune Ferguson in 1927 for rape in Florida . The youngest person ever to be sentenced to death in the United States was James Arcene , a Native American , for his role in a robbery and murder committed when he was ten years old . He was , however , 23 years old when he was actually executed on June 18 , 1885 . The last execution of a juvenile was convicted murderer Leonard Shockley , who died in the Maryland gas chamber on April 10 , 1959 , at the age of 17 . No one has been under the age of 19 at the time of execution since at least 1964 . </P>
when was the last juvenile executed in the us
when was the last juvenile executed in the us
April 10 , 1959
April 10 , 1959