Re: Perdue apologizes for 'torturous' remark

FFC1304 — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:50:52 -0400

lieberal pressures, huh Bev? STRIVE to be SMARTER!

Perdue apologizes for 'torturous' remark

ryanteaguebeckwith — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:52:32 -0400

Beverly Perdue has apologized for a remark on the death penalty.

As a state senator, Perdue opposed a bill to phase out the gas chamber in state executions, according to a March 23, 1995, story in the Charlotte Observer:

Another death penalty backer, Sen. Beverly Perdue, D-Craven, suggested that doing away with the gas chamber would lessen capital punishment's deterrent value.
"I think we should make it painful and torturous," she said.

When the comment came up in a discussion on the liberal Web site BlueNC, Perdue logged on and apologized.

"I made that quote more than a decade ago, and I'm sorry," she wrote this afternoon. "I know that we must make sure that innocent people are not on death row and that's why I favor the current moratorium."

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