Bill Richardson, a former governor and UN ambassador who worked to free detained Americans, dies - Seymour Tribune

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : Before his election in 2002 as governor, Richardson was U.S. envoy to the United Nations and energy secretary under President Bill Clinton and served 14 years as a congressman representing northern New Mexico.
47% : He met with Russian government officials in the months before the release last year of Marine veteran Trevor Reed in a prisoner swap and also worked on the cases of Brittney Griner, the WNBA star freed by Moscow last year, and Michael White, a Navy veteran released by Iran in 2020.
43% : He called it the "most difficult decision in my political life" because he previously had supported capital punishment.
41% : As governor, Richardson signed legislation in 2009 that repealed the death penalty.
34% : Bill Richardson, a two-term Democratic governor of New Mexico and an American ambassador to the United Nations who dedicated his post-political career to working to secure the release of Americans detained by foreign adversaries, has died.

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