AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE:
The USA’s willingness to execute prisoners for crimes committed when they were children puts it in a world of its own, Amnesty International said today, as it published a new report on global adherence to the ban on the death penalty against child offenders - - those under 18 at the time of their crimes.
“Two thirds of the world’s known executions of child offenders in the past decade occurred in the USA, including the only four in the past 18 months,” Amnesty International said. “This is now the only country that openly continues to carry out such executions within the framework of its regular criminal justice system.”
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