Amnesty Tells U.S. to Stop Executing Child Offenders

Amnesty Tells U.S. to Stop Executing Child Offenders
Thu July 17, 2003 08:45 PM ET


LONDON (Reuters) - Human rights watchdog Amnesty International called on the United States Friday to stop executing people for crimes they committed as children.
"The execution of child offenders has rightly become abhorrent in virtually every corner of the world, yet the USA is shamefully ignoring the effective ban on executing child offenders," Amnesty UK Director Kate Allen said in a statement.

In the United States, the death penalty is a matter for individual states, some of which permit the execution of people for crimes committed when they were teenagers.

According to a new Amnesty report, the United States "is the only country in the world to openly carry out child offender executions within the framework of its ordinary criminal justice system."

The report said the United States was responsible for 13 of the 20 known executions worldwide in the last decade for crimes committed before the offender's 18th birthday. Five of the U.S. executions took place in the last 18 months. (snip/...)

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=3112532

their TX crimes?

I don't know about the 16 and 17 years olds in Texas, but I know for sure the CHIMP threw the switch on a few people who were certifiably incompetent at the time of their executions.

Including one who at his "LAST MEAL" apparently told the guard to save his chocolate cake til "LATER"

http://www2.amnesty.de/internet/deall.nsf/210b31aa146ed695c125682b003a7b54/505b03710a8f5868c1256d600062a3fc?OpenDocument

hope, this link works

Another blight on our nations do-called moral superiority.

We will be hypocrites in the eyes of the World until the DP is abolished.