Ninety percent of all known executions are carried out in just four countries; China, Iran, Saudi Aradia and the United States. In fact, our nation and Somalia are the only two that have refused to ratify the International Covenant on the Rights of the Child, which prohibits execution for crimes committed as by children. Since 1990 only seven countries other than the United States had executed people for crimes they committed as juveniles, and even those… Continue
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 12:35pm