Obama & McCain Capital Punishment Comparison

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Compare McCain and Obama on Capital Punishment

Republican Presidential Candidate
John McCain position on Capital Punishment

• He supports the use of the death penalty for federal crimes.

• McCain voted for the 1994 Biden crime bill that expanded the number
of capital offenses punishable by the death penalty and limited the
number of appeals.

• McCain supports the death penalty for drug kingpins.

Democratic Presidential Candidate
Barack Obama position 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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