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17 when they commit their crimes. (The court has already ruled against execution of
anyone under 16.)
Unlike other death-penalty cases, this one has drawn intense interest from the
American Medical Association, the nation's psychiatrists and psychologists and other
health and research groups. They've filed briefs with the court making a novel
scientific argument — that juveniles should not be executed because their brains are
still developing. In other words, teenagers cannot be held fully responsible for their
actions because all the wiring to allow adult decision-making isn't completed yet. As
Stephen K. Harper, a professor of juvenile justice at the University of Miami School
of Law, puts it, "Adolescents are far less culpable than we know." (The New York
Times Magazine, by Paul Raeburn, 17.10.2004)
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AN END TO KILLING KIDS
America's Supreme Court has abolished the death penalty for those under 18
when they committed their crimes. It is just another nibble at the edge of still-popular
capital punishment – but does it show that America can sometimes be swayed by
world opinion?
Which country seems the odd one out in this list: China, Congo, Iran, Nigeria,
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and the United States? These eight countries are the
only ones in the world that have executed children under 18 since 1990. Now, at last,
the world's self-proclaimed beacon of freedom will be able to take itself off the list.
On Tuesday March 1st, America's Supreme Court ruled, by five votes to four, that
putting to death those who were minors at the time of their crimes is unconstitutional.
The move reprieves 72 juvenile offenders on death row.
Of course, the death penalty will remain in place for convicted murderers in
America. Indeed, it remains popular – two-thirds of Americans support it (though this
number drops to half when life imprisonment without parole is offered as an
alternative). Despite this week's ruling, America is clearly still out of step with most
of the countries it considers its friends.
More than half of the world's countries have either abolished the death penalty
for normal crimes or have imposed moratoriums, according to Amnesty International,
a non-governmental organisation that campaigns against capital punishment. These
include all but two countries in Europe and Central Asia (Belarus and Uzbekistan), as
well as both of America's neighbours, Canada and Mexico, and like-minded countries
such as Australia and New Zealand. Among large democracies, only India, South
Korea and Japan still practise capital punishment. But it is rare in those places.
According to Amnesty, in 2003, 84% of the world's known executions took
place in just four countries: China, Iran, Vietnam and America. (The Economist,
March 2nd 2005)

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