http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4308881.stm"The US Supreme Court has abolished the death penalty for those who commit murder when under the age of 18."
"Now the US can proudly remove its name from the embarrassing list of human rights violators - that includes China, Iran, and Pakistan - that still execute juvenile offenders," said William Schulz, executive director of Amnesty International USA.
Amnesty International (and other human rights organizations) had been concerned about this particular human rights violation for quite a while.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
