10 of the youngest children sentenced to death – #1 will leave you in a very big shock! (With Pictures)

2. Fortune Ferguson, Age 13 – Rapist Sentenced To Death

Before 1977’s Coker v. Georgia decision, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the death penalty to be “excessive punishment” for the crime of rape and hence unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment, convicted rapists were rather commonly executed, including 13-year-old Fortune Ferguson in 1927. The youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th century, Ferguson, an African-American child from Florida, was charged with and convicted of raping an 8-year-old in 1925. He was later electrocuted.

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