Republican Senate Candidate “Supports the Death Penalty for Illegal Aliens Who Commit Murders”

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Republican Senate Candidate “Supports the Death Penalty for Illegal Aliens Who Commit Murders”
The latest GOP primary issue.

Nathalie BaptisteJun. 1, 2018 6:00 AM   


Montana hasn’t executed anyone in more a decade, and it’s unlikely to carry out a death sentence anytime soon. But you wouldn’t know that from watching the state’s US Senate race. In the hotly contested primary to take on incumbent Democratic Sen. Jon Tester, one Republican candidate—former Judge Russ Fagg—has decided to make capital punishment a cornerstone of his campaign.

Using television ads, media appearances, and campaign events, Fagg has hammered state Auditor Matt Rosendale, the presumed GOP frontrunner, over Rosendale’s opposition to capital punishment. In 2013, Rosendale, who is Catholic, co-authored an op-ed calling to end Montana’s death penalty. “Those who support the death penalty usually use the same, tired arguments: It saves money. It deters crime. Everyone who gets the death penalty is guilty and deserves to die,” he wrote. “We’re here to say those arguments are wrong, wrong and wrong.” (Rosendale is correct. States without the death penalty have lower murder rates than states that do carry out executions, and a number of former death row inmates have been exonerated.)

https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2018/06/montana-russ-fagg-matt-rosendale-death-penalty/