Where Do You Stand?

Barack Obama: Position on the Death Penalty 

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- Obama Supports the death penalty.


- 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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