Kerry's thinking on capital punishment ought to make anyone who is firmly against CP mistrust him. He is literally taking both stances at the same time. It's even worse than the Toon executing the retarded killer since at least Bill never said he was against capital punishment.
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.
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.
RUSH has a great clip on Hanoi John flip flop on the DP hanoi john flip flops on death penalty
hanoi john wants us to emulate the french and abolish our death penalty...I thought he said America should be America, here is just another example of him wanting us to be more like his beloved france!
Again note he says he's prosecuted people, what he negleted to tell larry king was it was WHITE COLLAR criminals. And how can he 'feel' my pain he's not had a child murdered by a sociopath just to see what it felt like to kill!
Better a REAL American cowboy in the White House, than a frenchman like hanoi john.