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Children can be sentenced to death in 15 countries around the world. While only a handful of States are known to have executed a juvenile in recent years, where the sentence remains lawful, children run the risk of being executed should the situation in any given country change.
On this page, you can find links to reports containing full details on the laws and practices in the countries that still permit the death penalty for offences committed by children:
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Egypt (report forthcoming)
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Lao, People’s Democratic Republic
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Mauritania