![]() This woman had told me that her grandson was only fourteen. ![]() I was determined to manage the growing demand for our services by taking on new cases only if the client was facing execution or formally condemned to death row. Alabama had more juveniles sentenced to death per capita than any other state - or any other country in the world. Many states had changed their laws to make it easier to prosecute children as adults, and my clients were get- ting younger and younger. Many of my Alabama clients were on death row for crimes they were accused of committing when they were sixteen- or seventeen-year-old children. Only a handful of countries permitted the death penalty for children - and the United States was one of them. I'm in Virginia, and my health is not good. ![]() "He's already been in the jail for two nights, and I can't get to him. The older woman on the other end of the line was pleading with me after offering a heartfelt description of her grandson, who had just been jailed for murder. It was late, and I had picked up the phone after hours because no one else was in the building it was becoming a bad habit. ![]()
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