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Summer Lee: “I think that is an abuse of justice. I think that is a heinous, immoral act.”

On the recordDecember 7, 2009
I think that is an abuse of justice. I think that is a heinous, immoral act.
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Summer Lee
Democratic · Pennsylvania

Editor's note · Context

Condemns the politicization of death penalty cases.

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