publicity around people who were exonerated, the use of dna. it is an interesting time to have this debate. people are expressing misgiving about the death penalty. if you look at polls 60% of americans support the death penalty. this case is one that raises a lot of questions because there seems to be so much doubt in the record when you have seven of nine witnesses later coming back and recanting. i would note, though, those witnesses were heard by several courts and saw the affidavits. one court heard from the witnesses and ultimately rejected their changed testimony. so in some way we have to remember that troy davis did get to present the defense he wanted to present before a court of law. the death penalty is an emotional topic. look at what the managing editor of the grio.com wrote today america stands nearly alone in the western world as a killer of
overwhelmingly polls show that most americans have some strong misgiving about executing a mother for the death of her children. it s why most of the almost 3300 people who are on death row in the united states only 62 of them, that s less than 2%, happen to be women. now, i ve seen interviews of people speaking out and saying they have no trouble carrying out a death sentence on a mother and people often speak as if they would gladly conduct an excuse. and i seriously doubt it. and i know a little more about the subject than most of some of the tough talkers. in ten and a half years of governor i had to carry out the death penalty 16 times. and no matter how you think you would react, when you pick up the pen and sign your name to a death warrant that starts in motion a decision that is going to end in the death of a human being, you think about it. and when the iv line is in the veins of the condemned person and your verbal command injects the lethal drugs, it s
came to his desk and he was president he would sign it. romney has resisted that. he says he will have his own ways of reducing entitlements. he is not at this point pinned down. however, he made it clear he supports the idea of reducing the debt, trimming the deficit and doing what s necessary to get the discipline back in order. there are republicans who have misgiving about it. whether the ryan budget and the medicare reform overhaul becomes a litmus test, all of the candidates are trying to resist. it s a rule in presidential politics. try not to stake out hard positions way away from a vote. the candidates are concerned if they take a position, the ground could shift underneath them and they could find out they took the wrong one when it s too late
leann and shaun and found them to be delightful human beings. i want to ask you when you first met them what was your thought, that these people were really interested in you? did you have some misgiving about what are their real motives? what was that first impression you had of the tooeys? well, my actually you know, shaun, he was a volunteer coach, you know, on the basketball team and you know, he knew my situation and you know, he did great things for me, from the beginning. and you know, he he knew i couldn t as i wanted to, you had to pay for your lunch and he d put money on the meal plan for lunch to get food and things like that, or a long trip, give me a couple of dollars and things like that, they just had big hearts the moment i the moment the first time i went into their home, it was never a dull moment between us, you know, they showed me much love. it was like you know, i had been a part of the family the whole time and it was like,
leann and shaun and found them to be delightful human beings. i want to ask you when you first met them what was your thought, that these people were really interested in you? did you have some misgiving about what are their real motives? what was that first impression you had of the tooeys? well, my actually you know, shaun, he was a volunteer coach, you know, on the basketball team and you know, he knew my situation and you know, he did great things for me, from the beginning. and you know, he he knew i couldn t as i wanted to, you had to pay for your lunch and he d put money on the meal plan for lunch to get food and things like that, or a long trip, give me a couple of dollars and things like that, they just had big hearts the moment i the moment the first time i went into their home, it was never a dull moment between us, you know, they showed me much love. it was like you know, i had been a part of the family the whole time and it was like,