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Obama's Draconian New Death Penalty Stance

http://www.alternet.org/rights/89573 Obama's Draconian New Death Penalty Stance By Liliana Segura, AlterNet. Posted June 27, 2008. In a reactionary political calculation, Barack Obama comes out in support of the death penalty for child rape. What a difference a general election makes. Hours after the Supreme Court handed down a ruling banning the death penalty for the rape of a child, Democratic candidate Barack Obama found his inner Scalia and declared it a miscarriage of justice. "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 told reporters at a press conference in Chicago. This is true. Despite the assumptions of some of his admirers, for at least as long as he has held political ambitions, Barack Obama has positioned himself as a supporter of state-sanctioned murder...continue to full post

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