Stop Child Executions!


Where Have Child Offenders Been Executed?

Although the vast majority of countries that still practice the death penalty have turned away from executing child offenders, children are still not totally safe from this outdated practice. Since 1990 Amnesty International has recorded 38 executions of child offenders – 19 of them in the USA. Since 2000 there have been 18– nine of them in the USA. But even in the USA, such executions are not widespread: 19 of the 38 US states whose laws retain the death penalty exclude its use against child offenders, as does the federal government, and only three states – Oklahoma, Texas and Virginia - have executed child offenders since 2000.

Recorded executions of child offenders, 1990 – 2004

  China Democratic Republic of Congo Iran Nigeria Pakistan Saudi Arabia USA Yemen
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