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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: TigerPaw who wrote (171412)8/14/2001 10:42:57 PM
From: ColtonGang  Read Replies (3) of 769670
 
Only the US and Iran and a few others have the death penalty for juveniles.....the entire international community condemns executing underage criminals................are you listening........the eyes of Texas.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXThe use of the death penalty for crimes committed under the age of 18 is prohibited under international human rights standards, yet some countries still permit or practice the execution of juvenile offenders. Such executions are few compared to the worldwide total number of executions. However, their significance goes beyond their numbers and calls into question the commitment of the executing states to respect international standards.

The fact that nearly all states whose laws still provide for the death penalty have ratified international instruments precluding its use against juvenile offenders confirms the consensus that such use violates international law.

Since 1990 Amnesty International has documented executions of juvenile offenders in six countries: Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the United States of America (USA) and Yemen. The country which has carried out the greatest number of known executions is the USA.

Amnesty International opposes the death penalty in all cases as a violation of the right to life and the right not to be subjected to cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment. As steps towards total abolition of the death penalty, it supports measures which limit the application of capital punishment. These include laws which exclude the execution of juvenile offenders - people sentenced to death for crimes committed under the age of 18.
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