While most teenagers worry about homework and friends, some throughout history faced a far darker fate — execution.
These weren’t hardened criminals, but children, some barely 12 years old, thrown into unforgiving justice systems. Trials were rushed, evidence was flimsy, and legal defense was nonexistent. In one case, a boy was so small they had to stack books on the execution chair to reach him.
These stories reveal more than cruelty — they show devastating failures of justice, where childhood was stolen and replaced with a courtroom and a countdown.
