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Jeff Sessions: “I firmly believe that persons can disagree with the death penalty as a matter of policy, but as for a lifetime…”

On the recordJanuary 19, 2010
I firmly believe that persons can disagree with the death penalty as a matter of policy, but as for a lifetime appointment on the Federal bench, it is appropriate to ask are you prepared to follow the law faithfully like other laws and not treat it differently and undermine it, as I have seen certain judges do, just systematically, it seems, find one excuse after another not to allow the normal process to go forward.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions emphasizes the importance of following the law regarding the death penalty for judges.

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