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21 Whittier L. Rev. 215 (1999-2000)
The Supreme Court of the United States Has Been Called upon to Determine the Legality of the Juvenile Death Penalty in Michael Domingues v. State of Nevada

handle is hein.journals/whitlr21 and id is 225 raw text is: THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES HAS BEEN CALLED UPON TO DETERMINE THE LEGALITY OF THE JUVENILE DEATH PENALTY IN MICHAEL DOMINGUES v. STATE OF NEVADA CONNIE DE LA VEGA JENNIFER FIORE* I. INTRODUCTION Since 1990, only six countries have imposed the death penalty on juvenile offenders: Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the United * Connie de la Vega is a Professor of Law and the Director of the University of San Francisco School of Law, International Human Rights Clinic. Jennifer Fiore gradu- ated from the University of San Francisco School of Law (J.D. 1999), where she was a student in the Human Rights Clinic. Together, they worked on the amici curiae brief filed by Human Rights Advocates and Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights with the United States Supreme Court on behalf of Michael Domingues, a juvenile offender convicted with a capital sentence. Petitioner's brief, the amici brief, and Respondent's brief in the Domingues case are on file with the authors. The authors would like to thank Naomi Roht-Arriaza and David Weissbrodt for their comments. An earlier ver- sion of this article appeared in the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Interna- tional Human Rights Report, May 1999. The authors also presented written and oral statements to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights on the juvenile death penalty issue. See Written Statement Submitted by Human Rights Advocates, Inc., Hum. Rts. Comm., 58th Sess., E/CN.4/1999/NGO/9 (1999).

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