the politics of death

from the Associated Press, February 11, 2.38pm ET:

Hillary Clinton
* lobbied to support Bill Clinton's expansion of the federal death penalty as first lady
* co-sponsored law requiring DNA testing for people sentenced to death

Barack Obama
* supports death penalty for crimes which "the community is justified in expressing the full measure of its outrage"
* wrote bill mandating videotaping confessions and interrogations in capital cases

John McCain
* supports expansion of federal death penalty and limits on appeals

Mike Huckabee
* supports the federal death penalty
* ''I carried out the death penalty 16 times, more than any other governor in my state's history.''