"My entire career I have been opposed -- personally opposed -- to the death penalty," Vice-President Kamala Harris said in 2019, according to ABC News. "And that has never changed."
Harris has consistently voiced that view. But advocates on
both sides say her actual approach to cases involving the death penalty -- long
a politically treacherous issue in California -- has been far more complicated.
"There's a mixed record," said Robert Dunham, at the time executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center. "There are
instances where as district attorney she decided not to seek the death penalty
and there are other instances where she as attorney general took steps that
made it more difficult for a potentially innocent person to get access to
evidence that could get to the truth."
"Ultimately," Dunham told ABC News, "the
judgment for the voter is to try to determine whether the candidates' beliefs
are genuine."
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