UN condems execution of Graham

[Chris Burford]

Mary Robinson, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has written to Bush 
to express deep regret at the execution of Gary Graham on the grounds that 
this violates the growing global consensus that the death penalty should 
not apply to juveniles, and Graham was 17 when the crimes were committed.

I suspect that the US, like the UK, usually contemptuously ignores UN opinion.
But it is unwise to do so. A growing consensus is a growing consensus.

Nor are all the states of the USA monolithically behind the death penalty. 
Is the murder rate in Michigan higher than in Texas?

Chris Burford

London