2008 Democratic Candidate Barack Obama
Democratic Presidential Candidates comparison on Capital Punishment
 

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Compare the Democratic Candidates Capital Punishment policies
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Democratic Presidential Candidate
Barack Obama policy on Capital Punishment 
• Obama supports the death penalty.

• He believes that the death penalty 'does little to deter crime' but supports
it for cases in which 'the community is justified in expressing the full
measure of its outrage'.
 
• As an Illinois lawmaker, Obama worked with law enforcement officials and
wrote a bill mandating the videotaping of interrogations and confessions in all
capital punishment cases.  He also sought other changes in a system that had
produced wrongful convictions.

• Obama  was involved in reforming the broken Illinois capital punishment
system.

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40.5%
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52.2%
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