> According to Amnesty
> International, only five other countries are known to have executed
> juvenile offenders in the 1990s: Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Nigeria,
> and Yemen. The US has executed more juvenile criminals than all of them
> combined -- and is the only one known to have put any to death since
> 1997.
>
> Every country on earth has ratified the United Nations' Convention on
> the Rights of the Child, which prohibits the death penalty for juvenile
> offenders, with two exceptions: Somalia, which effectively has no
> government, and the US.
>
> "We've always been the world leader in juvenile executions," says
> Victor Streib, dean of Ohio Northern University's College of Law and
> author of a biannual report on the juvenile death penalty. "Now we're
> the only ones."
>
> SOURCE:
> http://www.motherjones.com/news_wire/juvenile.html