USA: On the wrong side of history: Children and the death penalty in the USA

Index AI : AMR 51/058/1998
Date de publication : 30 septembre 1998
Catégorie(s) : Amériques, États-Unis

This document examines the application of the death penalty to juvenile offenders in the USA, in the context of international law and other related issues. It contains several detailed illustrative cases and two tables of statistics of juveniles executed and those still on death row.