A brave move even more so for a Republician. The death penatly system is more than broke, it's been used for murder by those that were to uphold it & see justice done. The 4 men that walked free after more than 12 yrs on death row were found to have been tortured into confessions by Chicago police. This just keeps on happening more & more. Not to long ago John Nolan (past mudcatter), a former Scottish cop now an award wining New Hampshire reporter was covering a story about a guy on death row who'd been there for 5 or so yrs. While covering this guy's story John began to smell something was rotten (might have been because of his former occupation). He dug deeper unil he got to the truth. Truth be told an innocent man from the Lawerence/Lowell area of Mass (U.S.) had been railroaded & luckly (it was pure luck) he was finally set free. Even 1 wrongfull death is not exceptable & those that helped in anyway in their convictions are themselves guilty of murder. This is a long time coming. Barry