Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:33 PM 10/1/1999 -0600, Tim Atherton wrote: Amnesty International, again, bats zero for accuracy, their normal average. The ONLY "international law" dealing with this point is this amorphous "UN Convention on the Rights of the Child" which the US has neither signed nor ratified. Hence, Amnesty International can splutter in dismay and Vanity Fair can react with shock and horror, but it is perfectly proper for a juvenile offender TRIED AS AN ADULT to be executed in the US. Proper and legal and, no, there is no violation of "international law" in so doing. Me? I'm 100% opposed to the death penalty but, frankly, some of the juveniles I've represented were scarier than the adults. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!