Should President Obama come out firmly against the death penalty,

[Nye Bevan]

and commute all federal death sentences to life without parole, now that he does not have to worry about being re-elected?

I mean, the speech practically writes itself. People being released from death row upon being found innocent; people currently facing death sentences despite serious reservations about their guilt; the difficulty of obtaining lethal drugs to inject into people to kill them (because of those holier-than-thou Europeans inexplicably not wanting their drugs used in executions); unregulated "compounding pharmacies" now being used to concoct lethal injections; the awful racial disparity in death sentences; and the fact that practically all of the rest of the civilized world dispensed with this medieval crap years ago.

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	Yes, President Obama should come out firmly against the death penalty and commute all federal death sentences to life without parole.
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[TreasonousBastard]

1. He should, but he won't...

I have no idea what his personal feelings about it are, but it's one of those things that are so gnarly you just can't jump in there and take a stand without some horrific political losses.

[Warren Stupidity]

2. Should? Of course.

But doing the right thing is difficult, I mean (*cough*)Dukakis(*cough*) these things have to be studied and carefully evaluated, and we can't act without fully studying the issue. After all, it is just a bunch of low life scum who are going to get what they deserve, right? And other nations, like Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia and China execute people too.