{"id":128,"date":"2003-11-04T18:02:35","date_gmt":"2003-11-04T23:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/11\/democratic_candidates_on_the_d\/"},"modified":"2003-11-04T18:02:35","modified_gmt":"2003-11-04T23:02:35","slug":"democratic_candidates_on_the_d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/democratic_candidates_on_the_d\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Candidates on the Death Penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <i>Village Voice&#8217;s<\/i> James Ridgeway <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/issues\/0345\/mondo5.php\">summarizes the Democratic candidates&#8217; positions on capital punishment<\/a>.  A rough ranking of the candidates by stated opposition to the death penalty is as follows:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><u>Dennis Kucinich<\/u>; <u>Carol Moseley Braun<\/u>; <u>Al Sharpton<\/u>:  oppose it in all circumstances.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><u>Wesley Clark<\/u>:  uneasy about capital punishment, has misgivings about how it&#8217;s used.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><u>John Kerry<\/u>:  in favor of capital punishment only in limited cases, such as terrorism; would honor state preferences.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><u>Howard Dean<\/u>:  favors capital punishment only for extreme crimes; would seek a federal Innocence Protection Act.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><u>John Edwards<\/u>:  generally supports the death penalty; favors tightening protections to eliminate wrongful convictions.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><u>Dick Gephardt<\/u>:  has voted against making it easier for death row prisoners to file appeals.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><u>Joe Lieberman<\/u>:  has voted to restrict death row appeals; has voted to enlarge the class of criminals eligible to receive the death penalty.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkleft.com\/archives\/004774.html#004774\">TalkLeft<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/democratic_candidates_on_the_d\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Democratic Candidates on the Death Penalty\"><p>The Village Voice&#8217;s James Ridgeway summarizes the Democratic candidates&#8217; positions on capital punishment. A rough ranking of the candidates by stated opposition to the death penalty is as follows: Dennis Kucinich; Carol Moseley Braun; Al Sharpton: oppose it in all circumstances. Wesley Clark: uneasy about capital punishment, has misgivings about how it&#8217;s used. John Kerry: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}