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...example of the many uncomfortable choices that have resulted from the program was the decision of the office's director John DiIulio to separate out certain evangelical groups and exclude them from direct grants, instead allowing them only to use personal vouchers that are to be given to individuals seeking social services. The groups have protested that they were prejudged as inherently more missionary--and consequently less eligible for funding and less palatable to the government--than mainline denominations...
President Bush may be known for his vigorous - some would say enthusiastic - application of the death penalty while he was governor of Texas. But that hasn't stopped him from hiring a prominent anti-death penalty advocate to a top post in his administration. John J. DiIulio, a public policy scholar - and also, incidentally, a Democrat -was tapped earlier this week to run the administration's office of faith-based programs. Almost all of the articles and TV reports written about DiIulio, who has a perch at both the conservative Manhattan Institute and centrist Brookings Institution, have failed to mention...
...DiIulio used to support capital punishment. Why the switch? In the course of his extensive research studying crime, he changed his mind, a change of heart he laid out in a 1997 editorial for the conservative Wall Street Journal. His beef is that death row is a crapshoot because there is no logical relationship between those who commit capital crimes and those who end up facing death. Of the roughly 600,000 homicides committed in the U.S. since 1976, only 639 convicts have been executed. "It's become a lottery as to who gets killed," DiIulio told TIME last year...
...deep needs and suffering in the shadow of America's affluence," Bush told reporters Monday. The new president also signed two executive orders, one creating a new office called the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, headed by University of Pennsylvania political science professor John DiIulio, a longtime supporter of similar plans. Bush also ordered five Cabinet-level agencies to begin work immediately to "clear bureaucratic barriers that make private groups wary of working with the government...
...attorney general William Broaddus, a Republican, used to prosecute capital cases. "It was part of our heritage and culture in Virginia," he says. Now he opposes them, after spending time with a death-row inmate he represented in 1996: "When you shake someone's hand, you start thinking." John DiIulio, the conservative crime scholar, has also changed his mind. His beef is that death row is a crapshoot because there is no logical relationship between those who commit capital crimes and those who end up facing death. Of the roughly 600,000 homicides committed in the U.S. since 1976, only...