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Originally Posted by SilverTab
huh it's a known fact that the USA banned juvenile execution not too long ago!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4308881.stm
http://www.ncadp.org/juvenile_fact_sheet.html
It was voted not too long ago:
On March 1, 2005 in the case of Roper v. Simmons, the US Supreme Court, held in a 5-4 vote that the death penalty, as applied to those under eighteen years of age at the time of the crime, violates evolving standards of decency and is prohibited by the Eighth Amendment ban on "cruel and unusual punishment" of the US Constitution.
5 against 4... LOL
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I proved him wrong on his quote saying that Iran is not among the countries executing minors.