Hillary Clinton Wants to Have It Both Ways on the Death Penalty

[NWCorona]

"At a town hall event in Columbus, Ohio, tonight, Hillary Clinton took a question from Ricky Jackson, who was exonerated in May after 39 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit. Jackson asked Clinton whether she would abolish the death penalty; she said that she would not.

Jackson spent two years on death row after his 1975 conviction—his death sentence was commuted on a technicality in 1977 (there had been a mistake in jury instructions). Given that, and given the fact that 20 of the 337 people exonerated since 1989 on post-conviction DNA tests spent time on death row, he asked Clinton to justify her pro-death penalty position."

This is one position that I strongly disagree with Clinton on.

http://gawker.com/hillary-clinton-wants-to-have-it-both-ways-on-the-death-1764689832

[livetohike]

1. He was satisfied with her answer, by the way. n/t

[morningfog]

2. Did he make a statement on her answer?

I am not satisfied by her answer, by the way. Let's join the rest of the developed world and end this barbaric practice.

[dragonfly301]

7. +1 eom

[NWCorona]

3. Yup

That doesn't mean he agrees with it though. I sure don't and I'm sure others feel the same way as I do.

[daleanime]

4. Excellent headline.....

if you just snip off four words.

[Jitter65]

5. No she doesn't. But for some crimes, I would not be against it. Life is not simple.

Neither are choices.

[NWCorona]

6. True but

Some choices shouldn't be permanent

[starroute]

8. "Crimes" aren't put to death -- people are

And too many people are sentenced to death based on circumstantial evidence, hearsay testimony (often by jailhouse snitches hoping to get their own charges reduced), eyewitnesses who stumble on picking a suspect out of a lineup, or the race of the killer and victim.

The problem with the criminal justice system is that it lacks wisdom. If subjective factors are allowed to play a role, the law will be applied unequally. If attempts are made to arrive at a completely objective system, there will be no room left for mercy -- or even for avoiding judgments that are logically untenable.

The fact that you can cherry-pick an occasional killing so heinous and indisputable that the death penalty seems acceptable doesn't justify having an entire system of law that will sweep up a myriad of more questionable cases as well.

[Cheese Sandwich]

9. Clinton wants to have it both ways on the TPP, and on Fracking, on breaking up the banks, etc...

She is simultaneously both for and against everything.

[Lizzie Poppet]

11. Empty pantsuit. (nm)

[MisterP]

10. Schrodinger's candidate

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

12. She has a very cavalier attitude about killing people.