Child executions - the US is in good company
Amnesty is launching a campaign to ban the execution of child offenders worldwide. The US is apparently responsible for 13 of the 19 such punishments since 1998, and according to this report it shares the dubious role of child executioner with China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen - all, of course, true democracies. Good company for the world's only superpower to keep, no?
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