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...handful of nations that permit the death penalty for offenders who committed crimes before the age of 18. Only three juvenile killers have been executed since the Supreme Court restored the death penalty in 1976, but 29 remain on death row. This term, the court was expected to settle the question of whether the Constitution forbids such executions by considering the case of William Wayne Thompson, 21, an Oklahoma inmate who was 15 when he helped murder his former brother...
...vote came from Justice O'Connor, who ruled narrowly that Oklahoma could not carry out such executions because the state had never specified a minimum age in its death-penalty law. O'Connor stopped short of ruling on whether juvenile executions would be constitutional even in states that expressly permit them. That saved Thompson, but it left the larger issue at a standstill. The court has promised to review the question next year when it considers the cases of two other inmates on death row for crimes committed as juveniles...
...Jordan after the 1967 war. He moved to the U.S. in 1970, became a U.S. citizen in 1978, and in 1985 returned to his homeland to establish his center. Awad's current troubles with Israeli officialdom began in the spring of 1987, when he sought to renew the residency permit he had been issued in 1967. The authorities rejected his application and ordered him to leave the country when his tourist visa expired in November. He refused to go, arguing, with strong support from U.S. consular officials, that under international conventions Israel had no right to expel him from...
...Supreme Court established a precedent in cases involving group homes for the mentally retarded by ruling that Cleburne, Texas (pop. 21,000), could not require a special permit for a home for 13 retarded men and women because of community opposition and "irrational prejudice." In recent years 37 states have passed laws removing zoning restrictions on group homes in single-family neighborhoods. That has not stopped people from torching homes for the mentally handicapped in middle-class cities such as Hewlett, N.Y., and Ventura, Calif. Even poor people do not necessarily want to live near their troubled brethren...
Castro may have decided to permit the ICRC inspection for good reason. Last month Cuba was elected to serve on the United Nations Human Rights Commission, and one of the panel's teams is to visit the island in August...