Death Penalty for Juveniles:
The application of death penalty for crimes committed by child offenders is strictly prohibited under the international human rights law. Still, there are several nations using this law and are executing juvenile offenders. As against the total number of executions conducted globally, executions of juvenile offenders are few. The infliction for the death penalties for juveniles, and the number of nations applying it, have been gradually reducing over the past decade. Further, the practice of the execution of minors at the time of their crime has been directly opposed and prohibited by the International Covenant on Civil and ...
