Rudd wants to abolish Capital Punishment

This site says Rudd wants to abolish the death penalty, back in June of this year. Isn't it already abolished here in Australia? Oh, you mean he wants to do what Robert McClelland said the other night in his speech? Um, yes, it looks, as though, Rudd agrees with everything Robert McClelland says,um..... except the terrorist part. So is Labor going to abolish the death penalty in Asia or not?

Vote Labor.......
.....Vote Labor to abolish the death penalty in Asia......don't worry if they are democracies, we will FORCE them because we know better, and of course we don't care! And don't use the T word, -it may make the Bali bomb victims a little hysterical.........

This sounds like the Shadow Minister the other night which Rudd ripped into for:
from AsiaDeathDenalty blog

Sunday, June 24, 2007

Australia: Rudd would oppose death penalty

The author of a new biography of Australia's Opposition Leader says Kevin Rudd would launch a campaign against the death penalty if he was elected Prime Minister.

Robert Macklin said Mr Rudd had not spoken widely about the issue before, but his authorised biography contained "a heck of a lot that is absolutely brand new".

"For example, I'm sure that no one has ever mentioned that if he gets to be prime minister one of his important foreign policy objectives will be to begin a campaign to rid the world of the death penalty," the ABC quoted him as saying.

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