Former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is softening his stance on the death penalty after strongly supporting it throughout his 30-plus years in the Senate.
During a 1992 speech, Biden discussed his criminal justice legislation and said it would be so strict it would "do everything but hang people for jaywalking." Two years later, Biden's signature 1994 crime law included dozens of offenses that would be punishable by death, according to Politico.
While Biden supported the death penalty during his tenure in the Senate, he is attempting to soften his stance. He spoke at an event in New Hampshire earlier this month where he fielded a question from an ACLU volunteer on how he would reduce the population in federal prisons. An America Rising tracker captured footage of Biden's response.
"Of a hundred prisoners behind bars, 93 are in state prisons. They are not in federal prisons," Biden said. "When I was vice president I was proud to stand with the president when he reduced the prison population in federal prisons by 3,800."
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5 comments:
Biden is going to lose with all this pandering, and changing stances. He looks like a politician. And Trump has shown we've had enough of that.
and the flip floppin continues!
Lather
Rinse
Repeat!
Creepy Joe now favors killing them in the womb.
C'mon big donors, open your wallets.
Biden will sway any which way for a vote. He is a "Boy" in a Mans world. LOL
Biden said he was never called "Boy" but he was called "Idiot, Buffoon, Moron, Asshole, and Stooge".
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