RSSSotomayor panel equated death penalty, racism
From: The Washington Times | May 30, 2009
As a director of a Puerto Rican advocacy group in the 1980s, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor was part of a three-person committee that equated capital punishment with racism. The Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund argued in a 1981 letter to the governor of New York, Hugh Carey, that “capital punishment represents ongoing racism within our society.” Judge Sotomayor later became a federal judge and spent 16 years on the bench without having to address the death penalty, one of the most contentious legal issues in the United States. That will change quickly if she is confirmed to …
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