>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.
What's the UN going to do, impose sanctions on Texas?
>Nor are all the states of the USA monolithically behind the death
>penalty. Is the murder rate in Michigan higher than in Texas?
<http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/1995/pdf/t3116.pdf>
Murders per 100,000 inhabitants, 1998:
Michigan 7.3 New York 5.1 Texas 6.8
Doug