Renewed federal executions raise death penalty's 2020 stakes
WASHINGTON (AP) ” The question to Michael Dukakis, the Democratic presidential candidate in 1988, was brutally personal.”If Kitty Dukakis were raped and murdered, would you favor an irrevocable death penalty for the killer?” Bernard Shaw, a CNN anchor, asked, referring to the Massachusetts governor’s wife. Dukakis said he wouldn’t favor it because “I don’t see any evidence that it is a deterrent.”The technocratic, largely emotionless response in a debate mere weeks before the […]
