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  1. Jun 12, 2015 · From Death Row at 16 to Suicide at 45: The Life and Death of Paula Cooper. When Indiana sentenced Paula Cooper to die in 1986, she became the youngest person on death row and her case sparked a...

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  2. Jun 18, 2013 · A woman who became America's youngest death row inmate has been released after 28 years behind bars. Paula Cooper, 43, left the Indiana Rockville Correctional Facility quietly in a state vehicle, said Department of Corrections spokesman Doug Garrison.

  3. May 26, 2015 · The campaign to save the life of Paula Cooper, who at 16 became the youngest Death Row inmate in Indiana, attracted international attention after she pleaded guilty to murder in 1986.

  4. May 14, 2014 · The youngest person ever put on death row was Paula Cooper of Gary, Ind. She was 15 when the crime was committed. At the time she was sentenced, Indiana law permitted executions for those as young as 10.

  5. May 26, 2015 · Paula Cooper, the Indiana woman who became the nation’s youngest death row inmate for a murder she committed when she was 15, was found dead Tuesday of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

  6. Jun 16, 2013 · An Indiana woman put on death row at age 16 for killing an elderly Bible school teacher is scheduled to be released Monday after serving a prison term that was shortened after the state Supreme...

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  8. May 26, 2015 · INDIANAPOLIS - Indianapolis police say a woman who was once the nation's youngest death row inmate has been found dead from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound. A police report says...