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Article: HUMAN RIGHTS: U.N. CRITICIZES DEATH PENALTY IN UNITED STATES
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
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- April 9, 1998
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Gustavo Capdevila
Inter Press Service English News Wire
04-09-1998
GENEVA, Apr. 8 (IPS) -- A new United Nations report expresses
concern over the use of the death penalty and killings by the
police in the United States.
The document, to be discussed next week by the U.N. Human Rights
Commission, mentions the imposition of a death sentence on juvenile
offenders, which is prohibited by international law, as well as on
persons with mental retardation.
The report's author, Senegal's Bacre Waly Ndiaye, visited the
United States in 1997 as Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial,
summary or arbitrary executions.
Ndiaye found that in the United States "domestic laws appear de
facto to prevail over ...