Obama and the Death Penalty

http://www.ontheissues.org/Domestic/Barack_Obama_Crime.htm
Barack Obama is highly against the death penalty because he believes that it does little to solve the problem of crime. However, in cases that are so heinous that the community is justified in expressing the full measure of its outrage, Obama supports the death penalty. To Obama, an example of these crimes include mass murder, and rape or murder of a child. He believed the way that capital crimes were tried in Illinois, there was too much error and as a result 13 people were executed and that is way too many. In order to get this number down, Obama sponsored a bill in which all interrogations and confessions in capital cases were required to be videotaped. In negotiating the bill, Obama stressed that no innocent person should up on death row and that no person guilty of a capital offense should be able to be released without punishment. Throughout the years, Obama has had significant contributions to battle the death penalty. He was been very disturbed by the number of innocent people whom received the death penalty that have actually been innocent in Illinois. In order to fix that, Obama has been very involved in the legislation of the videotaping and also a co-sponsor of his comprehensive reform or the death penalty system in Illinois. For alternate sentencing and rehabilitation, Obama suggests that we implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders, increase state funds for programs which rehabilitate and educate inmates during and after their prison sentences, and provide funding for military-style "boot camps" for the first-time juvenile felons.