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Originally posted by Agamemnon@Oct 13 2004, 03:01 PM
The story revolves around a 17 year old killer and whether he should be put to death or not. Really interesting to note the countries that do kill teenagers are basically the US and a bunch of authoritarian regimes. I'm not sure if any of the European states condone the death penalty.
Is the US behind the times when it comes to state-sanctioned executions? Or is the rest of the world that is allowing murderers/rapists to go under-punished?
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US is a signatory to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, but has never ratified it...
That convention, in
Article 37, prohibits capital punishment of children. NYTimes article mentions that the world opposes this, but doesn't mention the convention which is signed by more members than most of the others ... list
here