World leaders lobby high court for end to juvenile executions

By Anne GearanThe Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Canada, Mexico and other U.S. allies, along with Nobel Peace Prize winners, former American diplomats and the American Medical Association yesterday asked the Supreme Court to end the execution of killers who committed their crimes as juveniles.
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The United States executed more juvenile offenders than the rest of the world combined between 1990 and 2003, the diplomats' filing said. During those years, the United States executed 19, while the rest of the world killed 16, the filing said. The foreign nations that executed juvenile offenders were Iran, eight; Pakistan, three; and China, Congo, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and Yemen, one each.
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