Leonard Shockley
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Leonard Shockley (born 1941 or 1942, died April 10, 1959) was a juvenile executed in the United States for a murder committed when he was under the age of 18. Shockley, a black male, was executed in Maryland in the gas chamber for a crime committed when he was 16. Shockley was convicted of murdering a white woman in Dorchester County, Maryland.[1] At the time of his execution, Shockley was 17 years of age. He remains the last person under the age of 18 to be executed in the United States.[2]