The Michael Domingues Case: Report of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Michael Domingues was convicted in Nevada state court of two murders committed when he was 16 years old and was sentenced to death. He petitioned the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, arguing international law contained a jus cogens (peremptory) norm against executing juvenile offenders; the United States argued no such norm had reached the widespread, binding force of prohibitions like those against piracy or genocide.