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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Shortly after assuming the royal oval office she’ll not only come out against the death penalty she’ll try to give the inmates the right to vote... For democrats.
Anyone who believes this lying witch about anything is a gullible moron.
But don't you dare flip a rebellious teenager out of their chair in the classroom.
The death penalty will come in handy once they round up all the conservatives into their re-education camps.
“I was against abolishing the death penalty before I was for abolishing it.”
it will really be handy if Lois Lerner is brought to trial by the next administration for her political crimes
she has her reasons, basically death is what she has in store for those who despise her once she gets to the WH, sham court proceedings and off to the gallows
Hitlary is really preparing for the day in which she is found out and we all grab a rope.
Those deserving of it usually do object to it.
“Limited and Rare”
like abortion
Death penalty for opposition and people who know too much.
..l.and don’t forget senior citizens.
"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.An example of appropriateness in the imposition of the death penalty is high crimes and misdemeanors.
Did anyone ask her if the persons responsible for the deaths of Ron Brown and Vince Foster ought to face the death penalty if convicted in a court of law?
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