Presidential Candidates comparison 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.

• 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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