However, at least one more vote is needed for a decision in favor of Christopher Simmons ... In anticipation of the Court’s decision in Roper v. Simmons, The Nation asked four people deeply ...

1993—Missouri 17-year-old Christopher Simmons plans a brutal ... opinion” to overturn its own precedent and to rule (in Roper v. Simmons) that execution of offenders who were 17 at the time ...