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Where candidates stand on crime, death penalty

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"The two differ on crime-related issues that have a lower profile but affect many thousands of prisoners, most of them minorities - the disparity between sentences for offenses involving crack and powder cocaine, and the merits of federal mandatory-minimum sentencing laws. On both, Clinton lines up with the prosecution, Obama with the defense." Where candidates stand on crime, death penalty Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle Staff Writer Sunday, February 10, 2008 When Hillary Rodham Clinton announced her campaign for the Senate in 2000, she declared - emphatically, according to an interviewer - that she supported the death penalty. When Barack Obama first ran for the Illinois state Senate in 1996, he said in a campaign questionnaire that he opposed capital punishment...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 11, 2008 (boomark / email).