FILE - In this Oct. 13, 1988 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate and Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis shakes hands with Vice President and Republican presidential candidate George Bush, left, prior to their second and final presidential debate on UCLA's campus in Los Angeles, Calif. During the debate Dukakis was asked whether he'd favor the death penalty if his wife, Kitty, were raped and murdered. His emotionally detached a classic case of being too cool under fire. "I think you know that I've opposed the death penalty during all of my life," he said. "I don't see any evidence that it's a deterrent, and I think there are better and more effective ways to deal with violent crime." Kitty Dukakis later wrote in her memoir, "That chilling incident at the second debate was the nail in the coffin. ... Michael made a mistake; he answered a question he should have hurled right back into the face of his questioner." (AP Photo/Lennox McLendon, File)