This is Napoleon Beazley. Napoleon was 17 years old when he was convicted of murder and sentenced to death.
In 2004, the US Supreme Court accepted review and in 2005 ruled (in Roper v. Simmons) that the constitution prohibits death sentences for individuals who were juveniles at the time of their crimes.
Beazley made this same argument to the Supreme Court only two years earlier.
The decision in Roper v. Simmons came too late for Beazley. He was executed on May 28, 2002.
Let's pass a bill prohibiting death sentences for persons who are severely mentally ill before its too late for somebody else's son, brother, father, cousin, friend....
