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Lit Drop Audio: AG Coakley presser on death penalty and Cong. Capuano's remarks

By Gintautas Dumcius
Oct. 5, 2009

After filing her nomination signatures, Attorney General Martha Coakley talks with reporters about her changed position on the death penalty, U.S. Congressman Michael Capuano saying she's not liberal enough, a public option in health care, and the air and ground war, among other topics.

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By frankiefballs - 10/5/09 - 9:15 pm
#1

Well now we know that Martha Coakley has no problem with the state killing somebody per se, just that she is against it because mistakes can be made. I'm glad that she clarified this - I won't be voting for her.

By Vineyard Voter - 10/8/09 - 3:26 pm
#2

Facts Matter

Get the facts: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/10/06/capua...

"Coakley’s campaign pointed out that Capuano, despite his stated opposition to the death penalty, was among those US representatives in December 2001 who voted to authorize the United States to execute terrorists who bomb public areas or government buildings.

“I’m against the death penalty, but if we’re going to have one, then there are few people more deserving of it than those who committed those particularly heinous crimes,’’ he told the Boston Herald at the time.. .
In October 2008, she (Coakley) was honored by the Massachusetts Citizens Against the Death Penalty, which was founded in 1928 after the executions of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti and is the oldest death penalty abolition organization in the country."