Author: Will Weissert, The Associated Press
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Resumed federal executions raise death penalty’s 2020 stakes
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WASHINGTON – The question to Michael Dukakis, the Democratic presidential candidate in 1988, was brutally personal. “If Kitty Dukakis were raped and murdered, would you favor an irrevocable death penalty for the killer?” Bernard Shaw, a CNN anchor, asked, referring to the Massachusetts governor’s wife. Dukakis said he wouldn’t favor it because “I don’t see…
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Campaigning from behind: Lower-tier 2020ers seek comeback
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FLINT, Michigan ? As her campaign bus trundled along Interstate 80 toward the Michigan-Ohio border, Kirsten Gillibrand was offering wedding planning advice to one of her presidential campaign staffers who recently got engaged. The New York senator recommended a Christmas wedding, preferably on a Caribbean island, until a senior aide intervened – reminding Gillibrand that…
