The international standard forbidding the execution of adolescent offenders reflects the reality that children are different from adults; that they lack the experience, perspective, judgment, and maturity, and restraint of an adult; and that with help even the most errant may be rehabilitated. We are writing to urge the Board of Pardons and Paroles to commute the death sentence of Alexander Williams, who is a mentally ill inmate on death row for a crime he committed at the age of seventeen.
US: Georgia Should Halt Execution
Human Rights Watch Letter to Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles
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