Death Penalty News: June 2005

1.) USA: Child executions banned; 2.) Mexico abolishes the death penalty; 3.) UN calls abolition “essential” for human rights; 4.) New UN quinquennial report on capital punishment; 5.) List of abolitionist/retentionist countries; 6.) UN expert attacks mandatory death penalty, calls for transparency; 7.) Comments by the Special Rapporteur; 8.) Iran executes another child offender; 9.) Resumption of executions by Palestinian Authority; 10.) Executions in Saudi Arabia; 11.) Guatemala to consider abolition; 12.) USA news; 13.) News in brief; 14.) Death

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