ess those addictions. The BOP does plan to substantially upgrade programs for juveniles, says sledge, of the agencys community corrections and detention division. Could the BOP handle even more juveniles? Youth advocates, judges, and police have been critical of the movement to federalize crimes already handled by states. They see no advantage to sending kids to faraway prisons under federal jurisdiction. Juveniles on Death Row Should society protect itself from the fiendish acts of young killers or give them the chance to put their lives back together? Clayton Joel Glowers is awaiting execution in Holman Prison; he is the youngest person in Alabaman on death row and the second youngest in the country. He was sentenced to die in Alabamas electric chair for sodomizing a junior college coed, beating her to death with a car jack and dumping her body in a creek when he was 15 years old. Its rough, all the tension, and all the worry, knowing that I didnt do the crime, and I have been put in here. Flowers said during an interview in prison. Jay Thompson, who was 17 when he was accused of murdering an elderly couple, pspent five years on death row in Indiana for his sentence was commuted to one hundred and twenty years. With good behavior, he will be 78 years old when he leaves prison. Thompson says, It is a very hard thought because I will never experience having a family, kids and a normal life. You dont realize many things until its too late. There are sixty-eight juveniles nationwide on death row. Which is a big increase from thirty-seven in 1982. Two-thirds of this group are minorities, and two-thirds of their alleged victims were white. Funny how society is willing to give second chances to white children, but that does not extend to Latino or black children. In 1988, The Supreme Court ruled in Wayne Thompson vs. Oklahoma that it us unconstitutional to execute anyone who was 15 at the time of the crime. In 1989, The Supreme Court upheld...
