The Court also noted that only the United States and Somalia had not ratified Article 37 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (September 2, 1990), which expressly prohibits capital punishment for crimes committed by juveniles.
聯邦最高法院同時表示，全世界只有美國和索馬利亞尚未批准聯合國兒童權利公約（1990年9月2日生效）第37條，而該條文明確禁止對於少年犯科處死刑。