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Originally Posted by Azure
I didn't read EXACTLY what he said....just noticed that he disagreed with the belief that a child rapist couldn't be put to death.
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"I have said repeatedly that I think that the death penalty should be applied in very narrow circumstances for the most egregious of crimes," Obama said at a news conference. "I think that the rape of a small child, 6 or 8 years old, is a heinous crime and if a state makes a decision that under narrow, limited, well-defined circumstances the death penalty is at least potentially applicable, that that does not violate our Constitution."
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http://www.newsweek.com/id/143256
A well-parsed response, but one that is consistent with his support of the death penalty in general, I guess. I don't really agree--mostly I don't think that general U.S. jurisprudence leads to "narrow, limited, well-defined circumstances" very often.