Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has come out in favor of not abolishing the death penalty, but, during remarks at a Wednesday campaign stop in Manchester, N.H., said she thinks the application of it needs to be re-examined.
“We have a lot of evidence now that the death penalty has been too frequently applied, and too often in a discriminatory way,” Clinton said at a Politics and Eggs breakfast at Saint Anselm College, according to a New York Times report. “So I think we have to take a hard look at it.”
Clinton, whose position is in direct contrast to other Democratic contenders, said it can’t be fully abolished.
“I do not favor abolishing it, however, because I do think there are certain egregious cases that still deserve the consideration of the death penalty, but I’d like to see those be very limited and rare, as opposed to what we’ve seen in most states,” Clinton said.
Man, I love the smell of triangulation in the morning!
Let the flaming begin.
Disappointed, but I’ll still vote for her.
Fox: We all know liberals are anti-life. Now they are showing that they are also Pro-Death.
I used to be against the death penalty, but I agree, there are cases for it. I don’t believe it’s a deterrent, I don’t believe in using it for revenge or “Justice” whatever that means in these cases. But I have come to believe there are certain people who just do not need to be here for the safety of the heard so to speak. I read a few months ago about a very violent man, released again from jail who then beat his fiancee to death, cracked open her skull and ate parts of her brain. There are just brutal, violent evil people out there that never need to walk our streets again.
Hillary has been known to “re-evaluate” her positions on things like this at advantageous times. Not uncommon. If and when she gets to the point where she’s not worried about scaring off the centrists, we’ll see what happens.