Posted on 10/28/2015 1:44:49 PM PDT by PROCON
During a campaign stop in New Hampshire on Wednesday, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton came out against abolishing the death penalty -- the first time she has addressed the issue during the current presidential campaign.
"I do not favor abolishing" the death penalty, she said, qualifying her position by adding that its use should be "very limited and rare," according to press reports.
Clinton has previously acknowledged how the plight of mass incarceration and police brutality affect communities of color disproportionately, and on Wednesday she conceded the death penalty is often administered in a discriminatory way, according to a reporter who attended.
Her view on state-sanctioned executions has remained consistent over the years. During her Senate campaign in 2000, she offered support for the death penalty -- in a seeming attempt to appear moderate on some social issues.
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Looks like arkancide is still a "limited and rare" reason.
Calculate, calculate, calculate, Hillary. I guess the polls are too strongly pro-death penalty on this one. But, just like her gay marriage position, this will change too at some point.
Remember all the Hollywood outrage and celebrities criticizing Slick?
Yeah, I didn't hear any outrage either.
that’s the phrase she uses for abortions.
Her opinion on this will be OBE if she were to be electe and have the opportunity to replace one of the consistently conservative jurists with another flaming liberal.
May she come to rue the day!
Limited and rare quickly morphs into cruel and unusual.
But that’s what a Clinton on TV is... cruel and unusual punishment for the viewer.
Justice Scalia gave a speech in Minnesota about a week back where he predicted the Court will eventually abolish the death penalty.
I think he is right. It is being gradually restricted to the point of no longer being practical.
Death penalty for opposition and people who know too much.
She’s just prepping for the eventual elimination of the Tea Party.
She’ll need it when the time comes to execute the remaining conservative Republicans.
They say the same thing about abortions. Wonder if we started executing thousands of criminals a year if they'd change their verbiage?
If abortion and the death penalty became EQUALLY “limited and rare” in this country, we’d be in a good place.
Of course she’s against banning the Death Penalty. It’s one of her favorite outcomes.
You could ask Vince Foster, but you can’t.
I rekon she would rather die than spend life in prison.
Naw that can't be it she would love live in a girls prison.
As limited and rare as abortion?
She been there done it.. No biggy to her or hubby..
Ask Vince or Ron.
Why abolish it when you can just let them go...
She’ll need it when the time comes to execute the remaining conservative Republicans.
should be “very limited and rare,”
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