NRCC launches ad targeting Murphy over 9/11

Just days before the special election for a seat in New York’s 20th congressional district, the National Republican Congressional Committee launched a web ad Friday targeting Democratic candidate Scott Murphy, invoking 9/11 to hammer him over his position on the death penalty.

In the 60 second spot titled “National Tragedy,” the NRCC highlights Murphy’s opposition to the death penalty for the plotters of the September 11 terror attack….

… “I think that we so often deal with cases where the evidence may not be totally conclusive and we can’t prove for beyond any shadow of a doubt,” Murphy recently said on the show. “I think that the cost is just not accurate for it. It’s so much more costly than putting someone away. It’s a big expense.”

“So you’re against the death penalty for terrorists,” Dicker asks.

“Yeah,” Murphy says as the ad closes.

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