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Jeff Sessions: “A lot of the cases they cite, isn't it a fact that the defendants were convicted, some given the death penalty, some…”

On the recordJune 24, 2009
A lot of the cases they cite, isn't it a fact that the defendants were convicted, some given the death penalty, some given life without parole, and they're cited in a way that suggests that somehow justice didn't get done in those cases?
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions questions the portrayal of justice in cited cases.

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