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The debate over capital punishment

d, the US carries out the greatest number of executions of child offenders, that is, persons who were under 18 at the time they committed their capital crime (Amnesty International Sec. 5). In 2002, three executions of child offenders were known to take place in the entire world. All three of these executions took place in Texas (Amnesty International Sec. 5). Compounding this problem is the fact that in the US, the death penalty is also imposed on the mentally retarded. Some courts in the United States, however, have recently held that executing the mentally retarded is excessive and violates the Eighth Amendment provisions restricting cruel and unusual punishment (New Jersey Law Journal 22). In Atkins v. Virginia (2002), the Court r

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