Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonWhat Senate Republicans have said about election-year Supreme Court vacancies Bipartisan praise pours in after Ginsburg's death Trump carries on with rally, unaware of Ginsburg's death MORE backs the Justice Department’s decision to seek the death penalty for the man accused of killing nine people at a black church in South Carolina last year.

Spokesman Brian Fallon told The Huffington Post that the Democratic presidential front-runner “respects the Justice Department decision” to seek the death penalty for Dylann Roof, a move that’s in line with her previous stances on the issue.

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Clinton said during a campaign swing through New Hampshire last year that she wanted the use of capital punishment to be “limited and rare,” adding that it is sometimes applied too frequently or in a “discriminatory way.”

But she left the door open for the penalty’s use in “certain, egregious cases.”

That belief puts her to the right of her Democratic primary opponent, Bernie Sanders Bernie SandersKenosha will be a good bellwether in 2020 Biden's fiscal program: What is the likely market impact? McConnell accuses Democrats of sowing division by 'downplaying progress' on election security MORE, who has called for an end to the death penalty and whose campaign told The Huffington Post that he disagrees with seeking the death penalty for Roof.

Roof allegedly entered the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston last June, where he sat with congregants before opening fire inside of the building. Federal prosecutors have charged him with hate crimes as well as murder, charges to which he’s pleaded not guilty.