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Iranian rights groups and lawyers have stepped up a campaign against execution of juvenile offenders hoping to save about 120 people convicted as minors who are now on death row, a lawyer behind the push said Wednesday.
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Jun Sook-ja, whose father was one of the victims of the mass political executions in the Daejeon, South Korea, area in July 1950, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at Sannae in Daejeon, Tuesday, April 22, 2008. ``I miss him so...
