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On the recordNovember 13, 2019
I just wanted to acknowledge, since there was this conversation about compassion for the innocence- earlier today I rolled out the People's Justice Guarantee, which calls for the abolishing of the death penalty.
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Ayanna Pressley
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Pressley discusses her legislation aimed at abolishing the death penalty.

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