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MILESTONES, Page 49
REPRIEVED. Paula Cooper, 19, whose death sentence for a murder
she committed at 15 hurled her into the midst of an international
controversy; in Indianapolis. Citing a 1988 U.S. Supreme Court
decision barring executions of killers who were under 16 at the
time of the crime, the Indiana Supreme Court decreed that Cooper
could not be put to death for the 1985 killing of an elderly Bible
teacher. Pope John Paul II was among those who had sought clemency
for her. Cooper now must complete a minimum of 30 years in prison.