Hillary on Death Penalty: Limit But Don't Abolish
Hillary Clinton today espoused her views on the death penalty.
"I think that we have a lot of evidence now that the death penalty has been too frequently applied and very unfortunately in a discriminatory way," Clinton said at Saint Anselm's College. "So I think we have to take a hard look at it and a lot of states are doing that."
Clinton said that the United State needs to be "smarter and more careful" about how the death penalty is applied, but that in some "egregious" cases, capital punishment is still needed.
"I do not favor abolishing it, however," Clinton said, arguing that it should be used in "very limited and rare" instances.
How about a moratorium then, until the system is fixed? Is it more important to kill an egregious offender or not to kill someone who was unfairly sentenced to death on the basis of race?
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