From today's Philadelphia Inquirer:

WASHINGTON - A bitterly divided Supreme Court yesterday banned execution of juvenile killers, overturning 72 death sentences and extending a dramatic trend of high court decisions limiting the scope of capital punishment in this country.

In an impassioned 5-4 ruling, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy said a growing national consensus about the immaturity of youth and America's position as the world's sole remaining juvenile executioner led to a simple conclusion: The practice violates the Constitution's protections against cruel and unusual punishment. (Emphasis added.)

The fact is, regardless of how anyone might feel about executing juveniles (or executing adults for crimes committed as juveniles), the United States is by no means the "world's sole remaining juvenile executioner."

Iran immediately comes to mind:

Sixteen year old Ateqeh Rajabi was executed for ‘acts incompatible with chastity’ and publicly hanged on a street in the city centre of Neka, Iran. She had no legal representation and was mentally ill. The judge, who had time to criticise her dress sense, hanged her himself and sentenced her co-defendant to 100 lashes. Ateqeh’s sentence was carried out on 15 August and, sometime later, her grave was robbed. Ateqeh Rajabi was one of four children executed in Iran this year and ten have been executed since 1990, so it’s an upward trend.

That may not be a complete list, but it's enough to show that the U.S. is far from being alone. And I'm sure that the above countries don't restrict capital punishment of children to murder. More likely, they're executing children for morals offenses, and at ages so young we'd be horrified.

Why isn't that relevant to the Inquirer's reporting? I have never read a single account there of an Islamic execution of a child, yet once again the U.S. is being made out as the world's villain.

Little wonder that so many people distrust the MSM.