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President Obama and the Death Penalty

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"Anti-death penalty lobby hopes for discreet Obama support," is the AFP report via Google News.In a country that has almost two-thirds support for the death penalty, US President Barack Obama will likely shy away from addressing the issue head on but could signal a discreet change in attitude, analysts say.During the presidential campaign, Obama only addressed capital punishment once, when the US Supreme Court ruled that sentencing someone to death for raping a child is unconstitutional."I have said repeatedly that I think that the death penalty should be applied in very narrow circumstances for the most egregious of crimes," he said in June.And:"I think that he's going to just avoid the issue," said Rob Warden, who heads the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law in Obama's hometown of Chicago, Illinois...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 03, 2009 (boomark / email).