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Kerry would support executing bin
Laden
CHICAGO, March 10 (UPI) -- Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry says he
would make an exception to his opposition to the death penalty in
the case of terrorists like Osama bin Laden.
Kerry said his willingness to make an exception for terrorists in
his otherwise unflinching opposition to capital punishment happened
on Sept. 11, 2001, the Chicago Tribune reported Wednesday.
"That status of war led me to find it impossible to suggest I
wouldn't want to blow Osama bin Laden's brains out and treat him as
an enemy," he said in an interview with the Tribune while visiting
the Chicago area for several campaign stops.
"I walked out of the Capitol and said, 'We're at war.'"
He said, "I think you destroy the enemy."
Kerry's political opponents have tried to use his opposition to
the death penalty against him over the past two decades, to little
effect.
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