President-elect Obama today chose Eric Holder as his pick for U.S. Attorney General. He would become the first African-American to head the Justice Department, according to Newsweek.
In an interview with the New York Times in 1997, Holder separated his personal opposition to the death penalty from his professional responsibilities: Mr .Hatch questioned Mr. Holder about his views on the death penalty in general and in particular about a case in which Mr. Holder initially did not seek the death penalty for someone who was accused of killing a District of Columbia police officer.
''I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us,'' Mr. Holder said.
Mr. Holder said that at first he had not thought the crime met the legal conditions for the death penalty. But he said he changed his mind after a conversation with Attorney General Janet Reno. ''I hope that the committee would feel very assured that even with those statutes that have death penalty provisions will be fully enforced by me,'' he said. Holder also said in 2000 that he was "personally and professionally disturbed by the [racial] disparity," which showed that "minorities are overrepresented" on federal death rows.
Source: Abolish The Death Penalty Magazine, Nov.19, 2008
In an interview with the New York Times in 1997, Holder separated his personal opposition to the death penalty from his professional responsibilities: Mr .Hatch questioned Mr. Holder about his views on the death penalty in general and in particular about a case in which Mr. Holder initially did not seek the death penalty for someone who was accused of killing a District of Columbia police officer.
''I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us,'' Mr. Holder said.
Mr. Holder said that at first he had not thought the crime met the legal conditions for the death penalty. But he said he changed his mind after a conversation with Attorney General Janet Reno. ''I hope that the committee would feel very assured that even with those statutes that have death penalty provisions will be fully enforced by me,'' he said. Holder also said in 2000 that he was "personally and professionally disturbed by the [racial] disparity," which showed that "minorities are overrepresented" on federal death rows.
Source: Abolish The Death Penalty Magazine, Nov.19, 2008
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