South Sudan urged to end death penalty as evidence shows children among executed

[EmperorScorpious]

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/dec/07/south-sudan-urged-to-end-death-penalty-as-evidence-shows-children-among-dead-amnesty-international

This year, seven people, including one child, were hanged, the highest number since the county gained independence in 2011 , according to evidence provided to Amnesty by legal professionals and government officials.

In 2017, two of the four people executed were children at the time of their conviction, the organisation said.

Among the 342 people currently on death row – more than double the number recorded in 2011 – are a secondary school pupil, who was sentenced to death when he was 15, and a breastfeeding mother. The country’s lack of transparency on its use of the death penalty meant the figures were likely to be underestimated, Amnesty said.

[Lord of Boxes]

Isn't South Sudan like one of the worst possible places to live iwth how prepared for war it is and them governmental strife?

[Mike Hunt]

South Sudan's been in a constant state of war since the 1960s, and the conflict flared up again in 2012 with a brutal civil war. It ain't a nice place.