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The summary claims that this debate is split into two camps: * The U.S. should maintain its sovereignty and apply punishment according to its own standards. * The international community disapproves of this practice and the U.S. is the leader among some of the world's most brutal regimes that execute child offenders. I don't see how U.S. determinism is relevant to the execution of children. The issue here is not whether we as a nation should be allowed to write our own laws. It's whether or not it is right to execute people under a certain age. This is a purely ethical issue and while the fact that most of the rest of the world has decided it in one way can be used to support one side, its counter cannot be a mainstay of the opposing side of the argument.

The summary claims that this debate is split into two camps:

• The U.S. should maintain its sovereignty and apply punishment according to its own standards.
• The international community disapproves of this practice and the U.S. is the leader among some of the world's most brutal regimes that execute child offenders.

I don't see how U.S. determinism is relevant to the execution of children. The issue here is not whether we as a nation should be allowed to write our own laws. It's whether or not it is right to execute people under a certain age. This is a purely ethical issue and while the fact that most of the rest of the world has decided it in one way can be used to support one side, its counter cannot be a mainstay of the opposing side of the argument.