• Mike Huckabee has been accused of dodging the issue of Capital Punishment; at times supporting and at times going against the issue.
• While Governor of the state of Arkansas, he is said to have carried out the death penalty sixteen more times than any other state governor.
• At the same time Huckabee oversaw a number of pardons and commutations of prisoners. He justified it by saying this was to get them into the workforce.
• Huckabee said that as much as he didn't like the death penalty, he had to carry it out in his state since it was part of his job and this he did after reading every transcript and page in the file and said he certainly didn't enjoy it. In fact he is said to have hated every minute of it.
• He opined that it was a necessary part of our criminal justice system for those crimes for which there is no alternative. But he did say that it was the worst job he had to carry out as governor.
• Huckabee said to support the Death penalty biblically as well as politically.
• He feels he always did the right thing whenever he gave the last word on all the executions he signed for saying that this right was justified against moral absolutes in the midst of an imperfect world.
• The Washington Post in its main political blog once commented - Mike Huckabee has nothing to say about the fact that the death penalty is disproportionately carried out in case of African Americans, that decisions to apply it are formed from careless investigations in crime labs and a host of other issues surrounding this gruesome procedure.
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