Beneath our feet thousands of executed young people are buried.

It was particularly alarmed at the execution of minors, including for morality crimes .

The Committee has also expressed concern about the extremely poor living conditions of death row detainees in Uzbekistan. Difficult conditions of death row prisoners have been reported in other countries, for instance Kenya and the State of Texas in the United States of America.

Morocco, the Philippines and Trinidad and Tobago had all agreed to guarantee in one or several cases that persons for whom they had successfully sought extradition would not be executed.

Since 2006, the Chinese authority has denied the fact that transplanted organs are harvested from executed criminals, insisting that such accusations are slander from western media.

Ten children aged between 11 and 17 were originally believed to have been among the 96 executed, but they had in fact been transferred to a prison outside the city of Samawah.

Countries that remained retentionist at the end of 2003 and in which there were reports of at least 20 persons having been executed in either of the periods 1994 1998 or 1999 2003, with the estimated annual average (mean) rate per one million of the populationa

In the UK, reviews prompted by the Criminal Cases Review Commission have resulted in one pardon and three exonerations for people that were executed between 1950 and 1953 (when the execution rate in England and Wales averaged 17 per year), with compensation being paid.