Napoleon Beazley

Napoleon Beazley (1976-2002) was a convicted murderer executed by lethal injection for shooting businessman John Luttig in order to steal his family car, as well as firing at Luttig's wife, although he regretted his actions for the rest of his life. He was denied a stay of execution after an appeal to the supreme court. His case is extremely controversial with human rights campaigners, including Amnesty International, because he was only seventeen at the time of the offence. Due to this, Beazley's case caused the abolition of executing people who were under eighteen when they committed an offence in America.