Gonzales Concedes Death Penalty Could Be Changed
From CBS2 Chicago.
(CBS) CHICAGO President Bush's top law enforcement officer seems to be softening his hard line on capital punishment.Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, who was Bush's legal advisor during dozens of executions when Bush was Governor of Texas, conceded in Chicago on Monday, that the system can stand some improving.
The U.S. Attorney General, the man often rumored to be the president's next choice for the U.S. Supreme Court, spoke Monday to the American Bar Association and later took issue with its stand against capital punishment.
"I believe in the death penalty," Gonzalez said.
Just hours before, the nation's lawyers had heard a scathing indictment of the death penalty from a member of the United States Supreme Court.
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