USA PUTS CHILD OFFENDERS TO DEATH.

[Monty Cantsin]

The use of the death penalty against child offenders – people under 18 at the time of the crime – is clearly prohibited under international law, yet a handful of countries persist with child executions.

Since January 1990 Amnesty International has documented 35 executions of child offenders in eight countries– the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the USA, China and Yemen. The USA carried out 19 executions – more than all other countries combined.

Child executions worldwide – a dwindling practice

During the same period, several countries raised to 18 the minimum age for application of the death penalty, in accordance with international law. Yemen and Zimbabwe raised the minimum age to 18 in 1994, as did China in 1997 and Pakistan in 2000. A similar move is under way in Iran.

[cormacobear]

It shouldn't come as a suprise, as govenor of Texas Bush put to death more people than any govenopr in the history of the state. He was the govenor when Texas lost the right to execute the mentally handicapped. Where was the opposition when this information should have kept him from the oval office.

[Exploited Class]

Originally posted by [email protected] 22 2004, 01:27 AM
Where was the opposition when this information should have kept him from the oval office.
Evidently you think everybody else shares your belief in kids not being put death by the state. Everybody was well aware of his records of not being a "compasionate conservative", they just don't care. Killing children with the powers of the state is just not a make or break issue for some people.

One can only assume that it must be some moral high horse shared by the left that finds something seriously wrong with sentencing children to death, because those views obviously aren't shared by the majority of Americans at the voting booth.

The people that voted for Bush, don't like people raping or molesting people under the age of 18 but have no qualms with sentencing a child under the age of 18 to death and trying them as an adult, or putting them in prison for life.