en-us http://www.newsique.com/tags/politics/penalty/ Get Informed. Choose Your News. http://www.newsique.com/politics/obama_backs_death_for_heinous_ch/ He has long supported the death penalty while criticizing the way it is sometimes applied. As an Illinois legislator, he helped rewrite the state's death penalty system to guard against innocent people being sentenced to die. The new safeguards include news politics 2008-06-26 08:16:12 http://www.newsique.com/politics/obama_backs_death_for_heinous_ch/ MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25379987/ http://www.newsique.com/sources/msnbc/ 95 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/politics/obama_backs_death_for_heinous_ch/#comments