Trump backed death penalty for 14 year old alleged rapist in 1989

[Sorenroy]

Was looking through the 2012 board to see if there were any "Trump vs _____" threads, and I stumbled across this one. While I can't quote it, because it's from to long ago:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=135065.0

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The teens were later exonerated by DNA evidence.  The case is described here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Park_Jogger_case[/quote]

My Mom was talking about this the other day because she was around NYC a lot when this happened and remembered the full page ads.

The original link is dead, so here is a different article that covers the same points:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/12/donald-trump-death-penalty/420069/

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Here is the ad:

[Sorenroy]

This is supposed to make me like him less? What's wrong with wanting to punish criminals who harm innocent people?

1: They were minors (four were either 14 or 15, the last was 16).
2: They were later found innocent through DNA evidence, which wouldn't have happened if they were executed by the state (there was no video evidence, they were convicted based on their forced confessionals). Not only that, but Trump's ad was published before their day in court.

Also from the article:

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Trump's call for execution should "make you like him less" because it was the preemptive call for the unconstitutional execution of five kids before they even went to trial.