He'll give the killer of a 5 year old American girl a 'pass' with just a prison sentence.
KING: I've done a lot of shows recently dealing with the death of little children. A person who kills a 5-year-old should live?
KERRY: Larry, my instinct is to want to strangle that person with my own hands. I understand the instincts, I really do. I prosecuted people. I know what the feeling of the families is and everybody else.
MY NOTE: BULL HOCKEY, unless you walk in a homicide victims survivors shoes you can't 'know' what they are feeling. hanoi sure doesn't know how DK and I feel about loosing our son to a sociopathic killer. Who only got a measley 20 year plea bargain and served only 14.5 years of it.
But we have 111 people who have been now released from death row -- death row, let alone the rest of the prison system -- because of DNA evidence that showed they didn't commit the crime of which they were convicted.
After spending -- I myself worked to get a person out of jail who had been there for 15 years for a murder that person did not commit.
Now, our system has made mistakes, and it's been applied in a way that I think is wrong.
Secondly, I don't believe that, in the end, you advance the, sort of, level of your justice and the system of your civility as a nation -- and many other nations in the world, most of the other nations in the world, have adopted that idea, that the state should not engage in killing.
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Because they have very bad memories of what happens when the state engages in killing.
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