Countries have the responsibility to decide if they want to enforce the death penalty. Each country has a responsibility to practice it fairly and humanely. In the United States, the Tenth Amendment gives states the right to make their own laws which gives states the responsibility to fairly practice capital punishment.
"If Congress oversteps its constitutional bounds... it is the right and responsibility of the states to overrule Congress and protect the Life, Liberty and Property of state citizens."
- Lex Green, Illinois Tenth Amendment Center
Student interview with John Morganelli, Northampton County District Attorney,
on practicing the death penalty:
on practicing the death penalty:
Several countries have declared capital punishment as inhumane and unjust. However, other countries practice it regularly. |
This video describes events in 2012 relating to capital punishment.
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The graph to the left shows that countries in South America and Europe have seen abolishing capital punishment as their responsibility. Countries around the world differ in what punishments they believe are their responsibility to enforce. |
![Steve Earle](/uploads/2/4/1/5/24159712/1386282041.jpg)
"My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody."
- Steve Earle, musician
- Steve Earle, musician