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US presidential candidate Obama cites work on state death penalty reforms

By Montana Abolition Coalition

: Democratic presidential campaigner Barack Obama can honestly claim to have got made a difference on a substance of life and death. While an Prairie State state senator, Obama was cardinal in getting the state's ill-famed decease punishment laws changed, including a demand that in most lawsuits police force questions involving working capital law-breakings must be recorded. The alterations enacted in 2003 reformed a system that had sent 13 people to decease row, only to have got them released because they were later determined to be guiltless or had been convicted using improper methods. "Without Barack's energy, imaginativeness and committedness I make not believe the very significant and meaningful reforms that became law in Prairie State would have got taken place," said writer George C...continue to full post

Full post as published by No Montana Death Penalty on November 12, 2007 (boomark / email).