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Executions of juvenile offenders are barred by international human rights treaties, though the United States has not accepted those provisions. Only the United States, Iran, Pakistan, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and the Democratic Republic of Congo have reported them since 1990.
Just to remind you of the fine company the American democracy keeps. But four Supreme Court justices disapprove of executing juveniles.

Posted by Mike on October 22, 2002 10:03 PM |

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Yikes, you're right, that IS horrible company! Those countries are infested with blacks and Arabs! I can't believe we allow ourselves to be lumped in with those savages!

Posted by: Some dude from UCLA | October 24, 2002 10:38 PM

I had governance rather than race in mind, but regret the impression.

Posted by: nedlog | October 25, 2002 8:46 PM

How many juveniles has the US actually executed since 1990, compared to these countries?

Posted by: Jerry Kindall | October 31, 2002 12:18 PM

According to Amnesty International, only five other countries are known to have executed juvenile offenders in the 1990s: Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Nigeria, and Yemen. The US has executed more juvenile criminals than all of them combined -- and is the only one known to have put any to death since 1997.

Mother Jones: "Wasted Youth" (Jan. 10, 2000).

Posted by: nedlog | October 31, 2002 1:21 PM

About 56 per cent of the known executions of child offenders since 1990 were carried out in the United States (18 of 32). . . . The United States accounts for 70 per cent of the juvenile executions reported wordwide since 1998 (12 out of 17).

Amnesty International: United States of America: Indecent and internationally illegal -- The death penalty against child offenders, Sept. 2002.

Posted by: nedlog | October 31, 2002 1:26 PM

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