He's been strangely silent on this issue. He's always expressed a principled support for the death penalty, but has indicated a move toward reexamination of the death penalty. But he hasn't been clear about his positions. I think the focus on Bush is appropriate but somewhat misplaced, because I don't think that George Bush is ever going to change his position on the death penalty. The issue has evolved from a simple moral debate to a question of evidence.
Evidence is something that everybody can agree on.
That debate's been going on for thousands of years, and it wasn't getting us anywhere. Now, there's been a shift toward evidence from moral disputes. This all crystallized at our national conference in November of 1998. That was a key turning point. In 1995, when Rolando Cruz and Alex Hernandez were exonerated, it built momentum.