A new report by Amnesty International, ​“The Exclusion of Child Offenders from the Death Penalty Under General International Law,” exam­ines the evi­dence sup­port­ing the con­clu­sion that the use of the death penal­ty against juve­nile offend­ers is pro­hib­it­ed under cus­tom­ary inter­na­tion­al law. The prac­tice is already pro­hib­it­ed by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child. William F. Schulz, Executive Director of Amnesty International USA, notes that the U.S. claims to be ​“the glob­al leader in child pro­tec­tion” while simul­ta­ne­ous­ly hold­ing the record for the high­est num­ber of juve­nile offend­er exe­cu­tions in the world. (Amnesty International Press Release, July 18, 2003). Read the Report. See also Juveniles.

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