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U.S. Senator Dick Durbin on the Death Penalty

By Steve Hall

Today's State Journal-Register of Springfield, Illinois reports, "Durbin changes stance on death penalty."  It's written by Bernard Schoenburg. U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, the second-ranking member of the U.S. Senate, said Monday he has come to believe that states should not impose the death penalty. However, he said he doesn?t want to abolish all federal authority to employ capital punishment. ?When it comes to those national crimes involving terrorism, treason, which endanger the lives of many Americans, those, I think, should be the compelling exceptions,? Durbin said. Following a breakfast Durbin attended in Springfield to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., he told The State Journal-Register he has always supported the death penalty, but also believed ?we have to be very careful to avoid discrimination...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 18, 2011 (boomark / email).