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Commentary: Death Penalty

NPR

Published January 24, 2003 at 12:00 AM EST

Commentator Ruben Navarrette says he and his father, a veteran police officer, support the death penalty for the same reasons they support an Illinois decision to commute the sentences of death row inmates: so that the innocent have nothing to fear.

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