In the short-term maybe, but I don't think you can make that leap as a long-term projection. It tends to go up and down. There were significantly less executions in the 1970s and 1980s than there were in the 1990s and 2000s.

Fair enough.

I think this time may be different because technological advances are making forensics a harder science; and proving the innocence of many convicts, capital and not -- but even the non-capital undermine the argument for the capital.

But, you are right. I am projecting from tendencies that may or may not continue.

Why this huge discrepancy in age?

Because girls mature faster.

Do I need to explain to you that girls mature faster?

And incidentally, the execution of juvenile offenders has actually risen in Iran over the last few years.

Yes, it has.

And while I may have concerns about due process and about the law's content, juvenile death penalty is the inevitable reverse of the coin of granting youth more rights. I disagreed when the SCOTUS stroke down juvenile execution in the US for the same reason. And now that amnesty is official, pray that the gangs don't rape, loot, torture and kill in your town, or at least that they shoot each other, because now neither the police can shoot them nor can they be executed, nor even deported.

Fuck Islamic law. Sideways.

Meanwhile, for all the noize the blasphemy law of Pakistan makes; still no execution for it.

Oh well at least in the West where free speech is protected, I can watch KP, oh wait I can't!