Do you support the Death Penalty

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Yes (D)

[Kaine for Senate '18]

No I do not and I'm very proud of my country's record regarding this issue (1 execution in 60 years, and he was a Nazi war criminal).
I am conservative but it is my religious and moral views that don't allow me to support such a punishment and the crime is not relevant since the question is not whether he deserves to be beheaded (many people do) but whether we are allowed and capable of making the decision to take someone's life.
I believe the answer is-no, plus I don't believe it deters future offenders.

An Israeli Jew

[Kaine for Senate '18]

An Israeli Jew

Well, viewing the statistics it's really not a brave call (80% of us are), but you're right.
God willing in a couple of weeks you'll have someone to report on new elections in Israel...

Shana Tova.

Shana Tova to you.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Ideally, I would support it, but since, for now at least, the government is in charge of capital punishment, there would have to be a lot of evidence.

So if the state were in charge, you'd ask for less evidence?

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Ideally, I would support it, but since, for now at least, the government is in charge of capital punishment, there would have to be a lot of evidence.

So if the state were in charge, you'd ask for less evidence?

No, I said that since the government is in charge of capital punishment, there would have to be a lot of evidence. I never referred to any specific level of government.

Who do you think should be in charge of capital punishment?

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Yes and we should actually use it.  Often.

How much more can we use it?  We're already in the Top 5.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Not necessarily.  Quite a few crimes are committed in a fit of passion; people don't stop to think, and having more frequent executions won't change that.