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Bill Clinton: If he's guilty, he killed a lot of people deliberately, and, therefore, I think it's something that the jury should be…

On the recordJanuary 21, 1998
If he's guilty, he killed a lot of people deliberately, and, therefore, I think it's something that the jury should be able to consider. From my point of view, I approve of the laws that we have in America now, the sort of two-tiered trial where you determine guilt and then you determine penalty, and I would want to hear all the testimony before I decided how I'd vote in that case. But I do think it should be presented to the penalty phase. Mr. Siegel. Even if you had a guilty plea that--as there is no parole in the Federal system--guaranteed none and spared any possibility of an acquittal, you would still prefer to reject that plea, to offer the jury the option of the death penalty?
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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