In which Court case did the U.S. Supreme Court rule that the execution of juvenile offenders under the age of 16 was cruel and unusual punishment?

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In Thompson v. Oklahoma (1988), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the execution of juvenile offenders under the age of 16 was cruel and unusual punishment, which violated the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. This decision set a national standard, and subsequently, in Roper v. Simmons (2005), the Supreme Court expanded the prohibition against executing juvenile offenders to include those under the age of 18.

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