http://www.civilrights.org/issues/cj/details.cfm?id=26378
Rachel King
"Since 2000, only five countries have reportedly executed juvenile offenders: Congo, Iran, Pakistan, China and the United States. However, at present, all of these countries except the United States have now renounced the practice. Numerous international treaties prohibit the juvenile death penalty, the most notable being the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which only two countries-Somalia and, embarrassingly, the United States-refused to ratify. In fact, the prohibition is so well established that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights ruled in Domingues v. Nevada that executing those who committed crimes while under the age of 18 is a violation of a "jus cogens "-a sort of universal human rights standard-making it akin to genocide, slavery and apartheid."
